Orwell : Life and Art.
This remarkable volume collects, for the first time, essays representing more than four decades of scholarship by one of the world's leading authorities on George Orwell. In clear, energetic prose that exemplifies his indefatigable attention to Orwell's life work, Jeffrey Meyers analyzes t...
| Формат: | Електронна книга |
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| Език: | English |
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University of Illinois Press
2010.
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Съдържание:
- Cover
- Contents
- Introduction
- I: The Life
- 1. Orwell's Painful Childhood
- 2. Orwell's Burma
- 3. The Ethics of Responsibility: Burmese Days
- 4. Orwell: The Honorary Proletarian
- 5. Orwell and the Experience of France
- 6. "An Affirming Flame": Homage to Catalonia
- 7. Repeating the Old Lies
- II: The Art
- 8. Orwell's Apocalypse: Coming Up for Air
- 9. Orwell As Film Critic
- 10. The Reluctant Propagandist
- 11. The Wind in the Willows: A New Source for Animal Farm
- 12. Orwell's Bestiary: The Political Allegory of Animal Farm
- 13. The Evolution of Nineteen Eighty-Four
- 14. Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel of the 1930S
- 15. Miseries and Splendors of Scholarship
- 16. The Completel Works of George Orwell
- 17. Orwell: A Voice That Naked Goes
- 18. Orwell and the Art of Writing
- 19. Orwell'S Satiric Humor
- III: Orwell After Orwell
- 20. Reviewing the Orwellians
- 21. True to Life: Writing Orwell's Biography
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Sources and Jeffrey Meyers: Other Works on Orwell
- Index.