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"'Good prose is like a window-pane, ' Orwell famously avers. But what kind of literary criticism is possible, face-to-face with Orwell's plain-style prose? Too often this style has been either dismissed by a seemingly more savvy critical theory, or held up as a reprimand against...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Woloch, Alex, 1970- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2016]
Subjects:
Orwell, George, > 1903-1950 > Criticism and interpretation.
Orwell, George, > 1903-1950.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Literary criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Critiques littéraires.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: Reagan and theory
  • Introduction: Orwell's formalism, or A theory of socialist writing
  • "Quite bare" ("A Hanging")
  • Interlude: between texts
  • "Getting to work" (The Road to Wigan Pier)
  • "Semi-sociological" (Inside the Whale)
  • The column as form
  • Writing's outside
  • First-person socialism
  • Conclusion: Happy Orwell.

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