The Orwell Conundrum

The Orwell Conundrum

Author: Erika Gottlieb

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9780886291754

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An important contribution to the understanding of George Orwell's thought, particularly to Nineteen Eighty Four. The author challenges the view of the novel as a flawed work of crushing pessimism, arguing convincingly that it is a great humanist's mature vision of his deeply troubled times.


The Orwell Conundrum

The Orwell Conundrum

Author: Erika Gottlieb

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 1992-09-15

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 0773591516

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An important contribution to the understanding of George Orwell's thought, particularly to Nineteen Eighty Four. The author challenges the view of the novel as a flawed work of crushing pessimism, arguing convincingly that it is a great humanist's mature vision of his deeply troubled times.


Dystopian Fiction East and West

Dystopian Fiction East and West

Author: Erika Gottlieb

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9780773522060

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"Erika Gottlieb explores a selection of about thirty works in the dystopian genre from East and Central Europe between 1920 and 1991 in the USSR and between 1948 and 1989 in Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia.


George Orwell

George Orwell

Author: Harold Bloom

Publisher: Facts On File

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13:

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Perhaps best known for his fable Animal Farm and his dystopian novel 1984, George Orwell was an influential journalist, critic, political activist, and cultural commentator. Within this volume, scholars comment on his political views, his perspective on totalitarianism, and his vision of other political dangers. Additionally, the experts in this text comment on Orwell's own forms of realism in his works and his unusual perspectives in his essays-sometimes pointing out where readers have misinterpreted his writing. Book jacket.


A Companion to the British and Irish Novel 1945 - 2000

A Companion to the British and Irish Novel 1945 - 2000

Author: Brian W. Shaffer

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Published: 2007-01-16

Total Pages: 608

ISBN-13: 9781405167451

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A Companion to the British and Irish Novel 1945-2000 serves as an extended introduction and reference guide to the British and Irish novel between the close of World War II and the turn of the millennium. Covers a wide range of authors from Samuel Beckett to Salman Rushdie Provides readings of key novels, including Graham Greene’s ‘Heart of the Matter’, Jean Rhys’s ‘Wide Sargasso Sea’ and Kazuo Ishiguro’s ‘The Remains of the Day’ Considers particular subgenres, such as the feminist novel and the postcolonial novel Discusses overarching cultural, political and literary trends, such as screen adaptations and the literary prize phenomenon Gives readers a sense of the richness and diversity of the novel during this period and of the vitality with which it continues to be discussed


George Orwell

George Orwell

Author: Thomas Cushman

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13:

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Explorest the life and work of one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century.