03469nam 2200613 450 991045967820332120200909225244.094-012-1214-710.1163/9789401212144(CKB)3710000000370825(EBL)1981309(SSID)ssj0001489517(PQKBManifestationID)11848640(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001489517(PQKBWorkID)11458841(PQKB)10016760(MiAaPQ)EBC1981309(OCoLC)905918739(OCoLC)905984718(nllekb)BRILL9789401212144(Au-PeEL)EBL1981309(CaPaEBR)ebr11028481(CaONFJC)MIL741177(OCoLC)905918739(EXLCZ)99371000000037082520150313h20142014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrPlace-ing the prison officer the 'warder' in the British literary and cultural imagination /Cornelia WächterAmsterdam, Netherlands ;New York, New York :Rodopi,2014.©20141 online resource (357 p.)Spatial Practices,1871-689X ;21Description based upon print version of record.1-336-09891-0 90-420-3934-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Preliminary material /Editors Place-ing the Prison Officer -- Introduction /Editors Place-ing the Prison Officer -- Deconstructing the Stereotype: History and Theoretical Framework /Editors Place-ing the Prison Officer -- The ‘Warder’ Writes Back: Prison Officer Memoirs /Editors Place-ing the Prison Officer -- Voice-ing the Prison Officer /Editors Place-ing the Prison Officer -- Conclusion and Outlook /Editors Place-ing the Prison Officer -- Works Cited /Editors Place-ing the Prison Officer -- Index /Editors Place-ing the Prison Officer.The sadistic prison ‘warder’ is an all-too-familiar figure in the literary and cultural imagination of Britain and beyond. This distorted image continues to be informed by the stereotypically oppressive gaolers of old – trailing the figurative stench of the dungeon behind them. Even today, prison officers can, for instance, function as scapegoats to compensate for society’s guilty conscience or as fictional vehicles to promote prison reform. This book seeks to redress this misrepresentation of the prison officer by drawing attention to counter-discursive examples: deploying and developing spatial and cognitive narratological frameworks, it examines prison literature that lends a voice to prison officers and/or grants them a complex fictional representation. A review of traditional depictions of ‘warders’ in classics of prison literature prepares the ground for the discussion of contemporary prison officer memoirs and the representation of officers in fictional works by Brendan Behan, Allan Guthrie and Louise Dean.Spatial practices ;21.British literatureElectronic books.British literature.828.10808Wächter Cornelia865310MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910459678203321Place-ing the prison officer1931405UNINA