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The Orwell conundrum : a cry of despair or faith in the spirit of man? /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ottawa :
Carleton University Press,
1992.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- PART I: A CRY OF DESPAIR OR FAITH IN THE SPIRIT OF MAN?
- 1. The Orwell Conundrum
- 2. Orwell's Essays: The Birth of the Adversary
- 3. Orwell's Fiction: From Psychological Realism to Political Satire
- 4. Nineteen Eighty-Four: The Reconciliation of Political Allegory and Psychological Realism PART II: GOLDSTEIN'S BOOK: THE KEY TO THE DECODING OF THE SATIRE: THE SECULAR RELIGION OF TOTALITARIANISM
- 5. Time as Theme and Structure in Dystopian Satire
- 6. Proles, Intellectuals, and the Betrayal of Socialism: Orwell's Satirical Devices7. Doublethink
- 8. The Demonic World of Oceania: The Persecution of the 'Satanic' Opponent
- 9. The Demonic World of Oceania: The Mystical Adulation of the 'Sacred' Leader
- PART III: CONFRONTING THE DEMONIC IN TOTALITARIANISM: ORWELL AND CONTEMPORARIES
- 10. The Demonic Spiral: Psycho-Historical Interpretations 11. The Modern Morality Play of Everyman against the Demonic Forces of Totalitarianism: Thomas Mann, Camus, Sartre, and Orwell on the Theme of Betrayal
- 12. What Turns Utopia into Dystopia? The Terror of Science and the Science of Terror: Huxley and Orwell
- PART IV: ORWELL'S TRAGIC HUMANISM
- 13. The Spirit of Man: Orwell's Response to the 'Realism' of Marx, Freud, and the Existentialists 14. Orwell's Concept of the Tragic: The Synthesis of Nineteenth-Century Moral Idealism and Twentieth-Century Realism
- PART V: COMING THROUGH THE OTHER SIDE: THE METAMORPHOSIS OF TRAGIC IRONY INTO THE MILITANT WIT OF SATIRE: AN ULTIMATE FAITH IN THE SPIRIT OF MAN