The Cambridge Companion to George Orwell
Author | : John Rodden |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2007-06-21 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780521675079 |
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Author | : John Rodden |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2007-06-21 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780521675079 |
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Author | : Nathan Waddell |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2020-10 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1108841090 |
The Cambridge Companion to Nineteen Eighty-Four is aimed at undergraduates, postgraduates, and academics. Situating the novel in multiple frameworks, including contextual considerations and literary histories, the book asks new questions about the novel's significance in an age in which authoritarianism finds itself freshly empowered.
Author | : Gregory Claeys |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2010-08-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1139828428 |
Since the publication of Thomas More's genre-defining work Utopia in 1516, the field of utopian literature has evolved into an ever-expanding domain. This Companion presents an extensive historical survey of the development of utopianism, from the publication of Utopia to today's dark and despairing tendency towards dystopian pessimism, epitomised by works such as George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. Chapters address the difficult definition of the concept of utopia, and consider its relation to science fiction and other literary genres. The volume takes an innovative approach to the major themes predominating within the utopian and dystopian literary tradition, including feminism, romance and ecology, and explores in detail the vexed question of the purportedly 'western' nature of the concept of utopia. The reader is provided with a balanced overview of the evolution and current state of a long-standing, rich tradition of historical, political and literary scholarship.
Author | : John Rodden |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 147 |
Release | : 2012-06-07 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1107376874 |
Arguably the most influential political writer of the twentieth century, George Orwell remains a crucial voice for our times. Known world-wide for his two best-selling masterpieces Nineteen Eighty-Four, a gripping portrait of a dystopian future, and Animal Farm, a brilliant satire on the Russian Revolution, Orwell has been revered as an essayist, journalist and literary-political intellectual, and his works have exerted a powerful international impact on the post-World War Two era. This Introduction examines Orwell's life, work and legacy, addressing his towering achievement and his ongoing appeal. Combining important biographical detail with close analysis of his writings, the book considers the various genres in which Orwell wrote: the realistic novel, the essay, journalism and the anti-utopia. Ideally suited for readers approaching Orwell's work for the first time, the book concludes with an extended reflection on why George Orwell has enjoyed a literary afterlife unprecedented among modern authors in any language.
Author | : Wendy Martin |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2002-09-05 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780521001182 |
Emily Dickinson, one of the most important American poets of the nineteenth century, remains an intriguing and fascinating writer. The Cambridge Companion to Emily Dickinson includes eleven new essays by accomplished Dickinson scholars. They cover Dickinson's biography, publication history, poetic themes and strategies, and her historical and cultural contexts. As a woman poet, Dickinson's literary persona has become incredibly resonant in the popular imagination. She has been portrayed as singular, enigmatic, and even eccentric. At the same time, Dickinson is widely acknowledged as one of the founders of American poetry, an innovative pre-modernist poet as well as a rebellious and courageous woman. This volume introduces new and practised readers to a variety of critical responses to Dickinson's poetry and life, and provides several valuable tools for students, including a chronology and suggestions for further reading.
Author | : John Rodden |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2007-06-21 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1139827766 |
George Orwell is regarded as the greatest political writer in English of the twentieth century. The massive critical literature on Orwell has not only become extremely specialized, and therefore somewhat inaccessible to the nonscholar, but it has also attributed to and even created misconceptions about the man, the writer and his literary legacy. For these reasons, an overview of Orwell's writing and influence is an indispensable resource. Accordingly, this 2007 Companion serves as both an introduction to Orwell's work and furnishes numerous innovative interpretations and fresh critical perspectives on it. Throughout the Companion, which includes chapters dedicated to two of Orwell's major novels, Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm, Orwell's work is placed within the context of the political and social climate of the time. His response to the Depression, British imperialism, Stalinism, World War II, and the politics of the British Left are also examined.
Author | : John Rodden |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2020-02-04 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0691182744 |
Is George Orwell the most influential writer who ever lived? Yes, according to Rodden's provocative book about the transformation of a man into a myth. He charts the astonishing passage of a litterateur into a legend.
Author | : Edward James |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2003-11-20 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521016575 |
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Author | : Loraine Saunders |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 2016-02-24 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1317012798 |
In a timely and radically new reappraisal of George Orwell's fiction, Loraine Saunders reads Orwell's novels as tales of successful emancipation rather than as chronicles of failure. Contending that Orwell's novels have been undervalued as works of art, she offers extensive textual analysis to reveal an author who is in far more control of his prose than has been appreciated. Persuasively demonstrating that Orwell's novels of the 1930s such as A Clergyman's Daughter and Keep the Aspidistra Flying are no less important as literature than Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, Saunders argues they have been victims of a critical tradition whose practitioners have misunderstood Orwell's narrative style, failed to appreciate Orwell's political stance, and were predisposed to find little merit in Orwell's novels. Saunders devotes significant attention to George Gissing's influence on Orwell, particularly with regard to his representations of women. She also examines Orwell's socialism in the context of the political climate of the 1930s, finding that Orwell, in his successful negotiation of the fine balance between art and propaganda, had much more in common with Charlie Chaplin than with writers like Stephen Spender or W. H. Auden. As a result of Saunders's detailed and accessible analysis, which illuminates how Orwell harmonized allegory with documentary, polyphonic voice with monophonic, and elegy with comedy, Orwell's contributions to the genre of political fiction are finally recognized.
Author | : Bernard Crick |
Publisher | : Sutherland House Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019-05-30 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781999439507 |
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