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Davis, Lennard J. was born on September 16, 1949 in New York City. Son of Morris J. and Eva (Weintrobe) Davis.
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Resisting the novel -- The ideology of ideology -- 'Known unknown' locations : the ideology of place -- Characters, narrators, and readers : making friends with signs -- Conversation and dialogue -- Thick plots : history and fiction -- Conclusion : the political novel, or, what is to be done?
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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. 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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In this highly original study of the cultural assumptions governing our conception of people with disabilities, Lennard J. Davis argues forcefully against “ableist” discourse and for a complete recasting of the category of disability itself. Enforcing Normalcy surveys the emergence of a cluster of concepts around the term “normal” as these matured in western Europe and the United States over the past 250 years. Linking such notions to the concurrent emergence of discourses about the nation, Davis shows how the modern nation-state constructed its identity on the backs not only of colonized subjects, but of its physically disabled minority. In a fascinating chapter on contemporary cultural theory, Davis explores the pitfalls of privileging the figure of sight in conceptualizing the nature of textuality. And in a treatment of nudes and fragmented bodies in Western art, he shows how the ideal of physical wholeness is both demanded and denied in the classical aesthetics of representation. Enforcing Normalcy redraws the boundaries of political and cultural discourse. By insisting that disability be added to the familiar triad of race, class and gender, the book challenges progressives to expand the limits of their thinking about human oppression.
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Disability Studies Reader by Lennard J. Davis. Routledge N. Y.,1997
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Lennard J. Davis grew up as the hearing child of deaf parents. In this candid, affecting, and often funny memoir, he recalls the joys and confusions of this special world, especially his complex and sometimes difficult relationships with his working-class Jewish immigrant parents. Gracefully slipping through memory, regret, longing, and redemption, My Sense of Silence is an eloquent remembrance of human ties and human failings.
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In this darkly satirical novel, a Columbia University English professor's life is turned upside down when it starts to follow the plot of Shakespeare's sonnets.
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The Fourth Edition of the Disability Studies Reader breaks new ground by emphasizing the global, transgender, homonational, and posthuman conceptions of disability. Including physical disabilities, but exploring issues around pain, mental disability, and invisible disabilities, this edition explores more varieties of bodily and mental experience. New histories of the legal, social, and cultural give a broader picture of disability than ever before. Now available for the first time in eBook format 978-0-203-07788-7.
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A sexy campus novel in which a professor at Columbia University who specializes in Shakespeare begins to see a strange connection between his own life and the plot of Shakespeare's sonnets. Will Marlowe, the professor, becomes involved with a young man and a dark lady. Each of them bring passion and problems.
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Davis, Lennard J. was born on September 16, 1949 in New York City. Son of Morris J. and Eva (Weintrobe) Davis.
Bachelor, Columbia University, 1970. Master of Arts, Columbia University, 1971. Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1976.
Assistant professor literature Columbia University, New York City, 1977-1986, associate professor film division, 1985-1986. Assistant professor literature Brandeis University, Massachusetts, 1986-1988. Associate professor literature University Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, since 1989, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, 1990-1992.
Associate professor State University of New York, Binghamton, 1992-1997, professor, 1997-2000. Professor, head English University Illinois, Chicago, 2000—2002, professor department disability and human development School of Health, since 2000. Adjunct associate Brown University, Providence, 1988.
Director Project Biocultures, University Illinois, 2006.
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Author: Factual Fictions, 1983, reprint, 1998, Resisting Novels, 1987, Enforcing Normalcy, 1995, The Disability Studies Reader, 1997, reprinted, 2006, My Sense of Silence: Memoir of A Childhood with Deafness, 2000. Editor anthology: Left Politics and the Literary Profession, 1990, Shall I Say A Kiss, 1999, The Sonnets: A Novel, 2001, Bending Over Backwards: Disability Dismordernism and other Diffcult Positions, 2001. Consultant editor Grand Street, 1990-1991.Contributing editor Child magazine, 1976-1999. Member editorial board The Eighteenth Century, The Arkansas Review Mediaevalia, Journal of Early Modern Culture, The Eighteenth Century, Journal Literature and Medicine. Contributor articles to professional journals.
Member Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies (founder, editor).
Son of Morris J. and Eva (Weintrobe) D. M. M. Bella Mirabella, May 13, 1979. Children: Carlo, Francesca.
