Becoming George Orwell : Life and Letters, Legend and Legacy /

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"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 hi...

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Autor principal: Rodden, John (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2020]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Orwell, George, > 1903-1950 > Appreciation.
Orwell, George, > 1903-1950 > Criticism and interpretation.
Orwell, George, > 1903-1950.
Orwell, George, > Criticism and interpretation.
Art appreciation.
Critiques litteraires.
Literary criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue. Donald and Winston at the ministry of alternative facts
  • Introduction. Orwell, my "Orwell"
  • Part 1. Life and letters
  • The quixotic, adamantly unsainted life he lived
  • Frenemies at fisticuffs? The debate rounds of two cordially contentious old Etonians
  • The literary breakthrough, or when Blair became Orwell
  • Orwell's twin masterpieces, Animal farm and Nineteen eighty-four
  • A "utopian" edition of a dystopian classic
  • England's prose laureate
  • Part 2. Legend and legacy
  • French connection, part 1: Jean Malaquais, a "French Orwell"?
  • French connection, part 2: Camus and Orwell, Rebelles avec une cause
  • How and why Orwell became "a famous author": surfing the tides of time
  • "Catholic exceptionalism": why Catholic America canonized "St. George"
  • "Orwellian" warfare: from cold to cyber
  • Why I am not a socialist
  • Conclusion. Whither Orwell
  • and "Orwell"?

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