"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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