Orwell Reconsidered
Orwell Reconsidered

Author: Stephen Ingle

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-10-21

Total Pages: 179

ISBN-13: 1000692000

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George Orwell has had a profound influence on modern politics and culture. He is regularly invoked as an authority by journalists, commentators and politicians, and his works speak with increasing relevance to our polarised and media-saturated society. Stephen Ingle explores Orwell’s character, his life and his beliefs by guiding the reader through the main events, private and public, that shaped his life and major works. This includes his time fighting in the Spanish Civil War as well as the writing of classics like Animal Farm and 1984. The book also reconsiders Orwell’s legacy and contextualises his contemporary resonance. Orwell, it is argued, is more concerned with morality than ideology. This book will be of significant interest to students and other readers interested in Orwell’s life as well as his profound contribution to the history of social and political thought and English literature.

Orwell and the Politics of Despair
Orwell and the Politics of Despair

Author: Alok Rai

Publisher: CUP Archive

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9780521397476

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Drawing on a wide range of Orwell's writing Rai charts his progression from rebellion through reconciliation to despair.

George Orwell
George Orwell

Author: Mark Connelly

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2018-10-24

Total Pages: 211

ISBN-13: 1476634548

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George Orwell (1903-1950) is one of the most influential authors in the English language. His landmark novels Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) have been translated into many foreign languages and inspired numerous stage and film adaptations. His well-known essays "A Hanging" and "Shooting an Elephant" are widely anthologized and often taught in college composition classes. The writer is credited with inventing the terms "Big Brother," "thought crime," "unperson" and "double think." His name itself has become an adjective--"Orwellian." Seventy years after its publication, Nineteen Eighty-Four remains very popular, its sales surging in an era of enhanced surveillance and media manipulation. This literary companion provides an extensive chronology and more than 175 entries about both his literary works and personal life. Also included are discussion questions and research topics, notable quotations by Orwell and an extensive bibliography of related sources.

George Orwell
George Orwell

Author: Peter Brian Barry

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2023

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 0197627404

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"George Orwell is sometimes read as being disinterested in if not outright hostile to philosophy. Yet a fair reading of Orwell's work reveals an author whose work was deeply informed by philosophy and who often revealed his philosophical sympathies. Orwell said things of ethical significance, but he also affirmed and defended substantive ethical claims about humanism, well-being, normative ethics, free will and moral responsibility, moral psychology, decency, equality, liberty, justice, and political morality. George Orwell: The Ethics of Equality avoids a narrow reading of Orwell that considers only a few of his best-known works and instead considers the entirety of his corpus, contending that there are ethical commitments discernible throughout work that ground some of his best-known pronouncements and positions. While he is often read as a humanist, egalitarian, and socialist, too little attention has been paid to the nuanced versions of those doctrines that he endorsed and to those philosophical sympathies that led him to embrace them. George Orwell: The Ethics of Equality is the first monograph written by a philosopher that offers a reading of Orwell informed by historical and contemporary philosophy and promises to better our understanding of him and his work"--

The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 4, 1900-1950
The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 4, 1900-1950

Author: George Watson

Publisher: CUP Archive

Published: 1972-12-07

Total Pages: 746

ISBN-13:

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More than fifty specialists have contributed to this new edition of volume 4 of The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. The design of the original work has established itself so firmly as a workable solution to the immense problems of analysis, articulation and coordination that it has been retained in all its essentials for the new edition. The task of the new contributors has been to revise and integrate the lists of 1940 and 1957, to add materials of the following decade, to correct and refine the bibliographical details already available, and to re-shape the whole according to a new series of conventions devised to give greater clarity and consistency to the entries.

Digital Mythologies
Digital Mythologies

Author: Thomas Valovic

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 9780813527543

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A collection of essays on where computer and communications technology is taking us. He explores the underlying social and political implications of the Internet and its associated technologies, based on his contention that the cyberspace experience is far more complex than it is commonly assumed.

Arthur Koestler’s Fiction and the Genre of the Novel
Arthur Koestler’s Fiction and the Genre of the Novel

Author: Zénó Vernyik

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2021-09-17

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 1793622264

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Featuring a selection of brand new essays by a group of accomplished scholars, Arthur Koestler's Fiction and the Genre of the Novel covers all of Koestler's novels published in his lifetime, the first book to attempt this in English since Mark Levene's Arthur Koestler, published thirty-seven years ago. The team of contributors, with research backgrounds in history, political science, religious studies, law, linguistics and journalism besides literature, offers a truly multidisciplinary take on how Koestler's novels utilize, and at times transcend, the genre of the novel, and argues for their enduring relevance and appeal in the twenty-first century, inviting the reader to revisit and reassess them. With the topics of Koestler's novels including terrorism, massive migration, espionage, rape trauma, war trauma, the crisis of faith, propaganda, fake news and the role and responsibility of intellectuals in major international crises, as the volume aims to show, these texts are just as topical today, as they were at the time of their publication.

The Anatomy of Disgust
The Anatomy of Disgust

Author: William Ian MILLER

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2009-06-30

Total Pages: 335

ISBN-13: 0674041062

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William Miller details our anxious relation to basic life processes; eating, excreting, fornicating, decaying, and dying. But disgust pushes beyond the flesh to vivify the larger social order with the idiom it commandeers from the sights, smells, tastes, feels, and sounds of fleshly physicality. Disgust and contempt, Miller argues, play crucial political roles in creating and maintaining social hierarchy. Democracy depends less on respect for persons than on an equal distribution of contempt. Disgust, however, signals dangerous division.