Resisting Novels (Routledge Revivals)

Resisting Novels (Routledge Revivals)
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Total Pages : 275
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ISBN-10 : 9781317672234
ISBN-13 : 1317672232
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Download or read book Resisting Novels (Routledge Revivals) written by Lennard J. Davis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-27 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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, 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.


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