'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...
"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...
"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 bind...
The fifth edition of The Disability Studies Reader addresses the post-identity theoretical landscape by emphasizing questions of interdependency and independence, the human animal relationship, and issues around the construction or materiality of gender, the body, and sexuality. Selections explore the underlying biases of medical and scientific experiments and explode the binary of the sound and the diseased mind. The collection addresses physical disabilities, but as always investogates issues around pain, mental disability, and invisible disabilities as well. Featuring a new...
The fifth edition of The Disability Studies Reader addresses the post-identity theoretical landscape by emphasizing questions of interdepe...
The fifth edition of The Disability Studies Reader addresses the post-identity theoretical landscape by emphasizing questions of interdependency and independence, the human animal relationship, and issues around the construction or materiality of gender, the body, and sexuality. Selections explore the underlying biases of medical and scientific experiments and explode the binary of the sound and the diseased mind. The collection addresses physical disabilities, but as always investogates issues around pain, mental disability, and invisible disabilities as well. Featuring a new...
The fifth edition of The Disability Studies Reader addresses the post-identity theoretical landscape by emphasizing questions of interdepe...
