Resisting Novels (routledge Revivals): Ideology And Fiction
by Lennard J. Davis /
2014 / English / PDF
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"By making friends with signs", Lennard Davis argues, "we are
weakening the bond that anchors us to the social world, the world
of action, and binding ourselves to the ideological." For the
reader, this power of the novel needs to be resisted. But there
is a double resistance at work: the novel is also a defensive
structure positioning us against alienation and loneliness: the
dehumanising symptoms of modern life.
"By making friends with signs", Lennard Davis argues, "we are
weakening the bond that anchors us to the social world, the world
of action, and binding ourselves to the ideological." For the
reader, this power of the novel needs to be resisted. But there
is a double resistance at work: the novel is also a defensive
structure positioning us against alienation and loneliness: the
dehumanising symptoms of modern life.
While discussions surrounding ideology in novels traditionally
concentrate on thematics, in this study – first published in 1987
- Davis approaches the subject through such structural features
as location, character, dialogue and plot. Drawing on a wide
range of novels from the seventeenth century to the present day,
and on psychoanalysis as well as philosophy,
While discussions surrounding ideology in novels traditionally
concentrate on thematics, in this study – first published in 1987
- Davis approaches the subject through such structural features
as location, character, dialogue and plot. Drawing on a wide
range of novels from the seventeenth century to the present day,
and on psychoanalysis as well as philosophy,Resisting
Novels
Resisting
Novels explores how fiction works subliminally to resist
change and to detach the reader from the world of lived
experience. This controversial critique will engage students and
academics with a particular interest in literary theory.
explores how fiction works subliminally to resist
change and to detach the reader from the world of lived
experience. This controversial critique will engage students and
academics with a particular interest in literary theory.