Resisting Novels : Ideology and Fiction

ISBN-13: 9781138780910 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 252 str.

Lennard J. Davis

Opis

'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.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements;  1. Resisting the novel  2. The ideology of ideology  3. ‘Known unknown’ locations: the ideology of place  4. Characters, narrators, and readers: making friends with signs  5. Conversation and dialogue  6. Thick plots: history and fiction  7. Conclusion: the political novel, or – what is to be done?;  Notes;  Bibliography;  Index

O autorze

Lennard J. Davis