LEADER 03436nam 2200601 450 001 9910796931103321 005 20230803212929.0 010 $a94-012-1214-7 024 7 $a10.1163/9789401212144 035 $a(CKB)3710000000370825 035 $a(EBL)1981309 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001489517 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11848640 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001489517 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11458841 035 $a(PQKB)10016760 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1981309 035 $a(OCoLC)905918739$z(OCoLC)905984718 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789401212144 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1981309 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11028481 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL741177 035 $a(OCoLC)905918739 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000370825 100 $a20150313h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPlace-ing the prison officer $ethe 'warder' in the British literary and cultural imagination /$fCornelia Wa?chter 210 1$aAmsterdam, Netherlands ;$aNew York, New York :$cRodopi,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (357 p.) 225 1 $aSpatial Practices,$x1871-689X ;$v21 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-336-09891-0 311 $a90-420-3934-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tPreliminary material /$rEditors Place-ing the Prison Officer -- $tIntroduction /$rEditors Place-ing the Prison Officer -- $tDeconstructing the Stereotype: History and Theoretical Framework /$rEditors Place-ing the Prison Officer -- $tThe ?Warder? Writes Back: Prison Officer Memoirs /$rEditors Place-ing the Prison Officer -- $tVoice-ing the Prison Officer /$rEditors Place-ing the Prison Officer -- $tConclusion and Outlook /$rEditors Place-ing the Prison Officer -- $tWorks Cited /$rEditors Place-ing the Prison Officer -- $tIndex /$rEditors Place-ing the Prison Officer. 330 $aThe sadistic prison ?warder? is an all-too-familiar figure in the literary and cultural imagination of Britain and beyond. This distorted image continues to be informed by the stereotypically oppressive gaolers of old ? trailing the figurative stench of the dungeon behind them. Even today, prison officers can, for instance, function as scapegoats to compensate for society?s guilty conscience or as fictional vehicles to promote prison reform. This book seeks to redress this misrepresentation of the prison officer by drawing attention to counter-discursive examples: deploying and developing spatial and cognitive narratological frameworks, it examines prison literature that lends a voice to prison officers and/or grants them a complex fictional representation. A review of traditional depictions of ?warders? in classics of prison literature prepares the ground for the discussion of contemporary prison officer memoirs and the representation of officers in fictional works by Brendan Behan, Allan Guthrie and Louise Dean. 410 0$aSpatial practices ;$v21. 606 $aBritish literature 615 0$aBritish literature. 676 $a828.10808 700 $aWa?chter$b Cornelia$01531580 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910796931103321 996 $aPlace-ing the prison officer$93777379 997 $aUNINA