The Cambridge Introduction to George Orwell
Title | The Cambridge Introduction to George Orwell PDF eBook |
Author | John Rodden |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 147 |
Release | 2012-06-07 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 052176923X |
An introductory guide to the life, work and legacy of George Orwell - one of the most influential literary twentieth-century figures.
The Cambridge Companion to George Orwell
Title | The Cambridge Companion to George Orwell PDF eBook |
Author | John Rodden |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 250 |
Release | 2007-06-21 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 9780521675079 |
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The Cambridge Companion to Nineteen Eighty-Four
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Nineteen Eighty-Four PDF eBook |
Author | Nathan Waddell |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
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.
The Cambridge Introduction to George Orwell
Title | The Cambridge Introduction to George Orwell PDF eBook |
Author | Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Communication John Rodden |
Publisher | |
Pages | 148 |
Release | 2014-05-14 |
Genre | LITERARY CRITICISM |
ISBN | 9781139379502 |
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.
Becoming George Orwell
Title | Becoming George Orwell PDF eBook |
Author | John Rodden |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 376 |
Release | 2021-09-14 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0691228418 |
The remarkable transformation of Orwell from journeyman writer to towering icon Is George Orwell the most influential writer who ever lived? Yes, according to John Rodden’s provocative book about the transformation of a man into a myth. Rodden does not argue that Orwell was the most distinguished man of letters of the last century, nor even the leading novelist of his generation, let alone the greatest imaginative writer of English prose fiction. Yet his influence since his death at midcentury is incomparable. No other writer has aroused so much controversy or contributed so many incessantly quoted words and phrases to our cultural lexicon, from “Big Brother” and “doublethink” to “thoughtcrime” and “Newspeak.” Becoming George Orwell is a pathbreaking tour de force that charts the astonishing passage of a litterateur into a legend. Rodden presents the author of Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four in a new light, exploring how the man and writer Orwell, born Eric Arthur Blair, came to be overshadowed by the spectral figure associated with nightmare visions of our possible futures. Rodden opens with a discussion of the life and letters, chronicling Orwell’s eccentricities and emotional struggles, followed by an assessment of his chief literary achievements. The second half of the book examines the legend and legacy of Orwell, whom Rodden calls “England’s Prose Laureate,” looking at everything from cyberwarfare to “fake news.” The closing chapters address both Orwell’s enduring relevance to burning contemporary issues and the multiple ironies of his popular reputation, showing how he and his work have become confused with the very dreads and diseases that he fought against throughout his life.
The Cambridge Companion to Utopian Literature
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Utopian Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Gregory Claeys |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
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.
The Cambridge Companion to Nineteen Eighty-Four
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Nineteen Eighty-Four PDF eBook |
Author | Nathan Waddell |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 311 |
Release | 2020-10-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1108899706 |
George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) remains a book of the moment. This Companion builds on successive waves of generational inheritance and debate in the novel's reception by asking new questions about how and why Nineteen Eighty-Four was written, what it means, and why it matters. Chapters on a selection of the novel's interpretative contexts, the literary histories from which it is inseparable, the urgent questions it raises, and the impact it has had on other kinds of media, ranging from radio to video games, open up the conversation in an expansive way. Established concerns (e.g. Orwell's attitude to the working class, his anxieties about the socio-political compartmentalization of the post-war world) are presented alongside newer ones (e.g. his views on evil, and the influence of Nineteen Eighty-Four on comics). Individual essays help us see in new ways how Orwell's most famous work continues to be a novel for our times.