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Essays on politics and literature /

This lively collection of essays gives a non-technical, but profound analysis of the essential relationship between politics and literature.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Crick, Bernard, 1929-2008
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©1989.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / David Daiches
  • Literature and politics
  • The political in Britain's two national theatres
  • Young writers of the thirties
  • Koestler's Koestler
  • Hannah Arendt : hedgehog or fox?
  • Beatrice Webb as English diarist
  • Words
  • My LSE
  • Reading The observer as a complex text
  • On the difficulties of writing biography and of Orwell's in particular
  • Reading Nineteen eighty-four as satire
  • Animal farm for schools
  • Orwell and English socialism
  • On the Orwell trail
  • Wedekind's Spring awakening
  • Horvath's Tales from the Vienna woods
  • Pinter's No man's land
  • Polly by gaslight
  • Edgar catches Jenkins' ear at the Barbican
  • Barrault at the Barbican.