George Orwell, Doubleness, and the Value of Decency

George Orwell, Doubleness, and the Value of Decency
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 216
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ISBN-10 : 9781135924447
ISBN-13 : 1135924449
Rating : 4/5 (47 Downloads)

Book Synopsis George Orwell, Doubleness, and the Value of Decency by : Anthony Stewart

Download or read book George Orwell, Doubleness, and the Value of Decency written by Anthony Stewart and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-03 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

George Orwell's Perverse Humanity

George Orwell's Perverse Humanity
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages : 281
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ISBN-10 : 9781501394676
ISBN-13 : 1501394673
Rating : 4/5 (76 Downloads)

Book Synopsis George Orwell's Perverse Humanity by : Glenn Burgess

Download or read book George Orwell's Perverse Humanity written by Glenn Burgess and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2023-04-06 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to focus primarily on George Orwell's ideas about free speech and related matters – freedom of the press, the writer's freedom of expression, honesty and truthfulness – and, in particular, the ways in which they are linked to his political vision of socialism. Orwell is today claimed by the Left and Right, by neo-conservatives and neo-socialists. How is that possible? Part of the answer, as Glenn Burgess reveals, is that Orwell was an odd sort of socialist. The development of Orwell's socialism was, from the start, conditioned by his individualist and liberal commitments. The hopes he attached to socialism were for a fairer, more equal world that would permit human freedom and individuality to flourish, completing, not destroying, the work of liberalism. Freedom of thought was a central part of this, and its defence and use were essential parts of the struggle to ensure that socialism developed in a liberal, humane form that did not follow the totalitarian path of Soviet communism. Written in celebration of Orwell's dictum, 'We hold that the most perverse human being is more interesting than the most orthodox gramophone record,' George Orwell's Perverse Humanity is a portrait of Orwell that captures these themes and provides a new understanding of him as a political thinker and activist. Based on archival research and new materials that affirm his work as an activist for freedom, it also uncovers a socialist ideology that has been obscured in just the way that the author feared it would be – associated in many people's minds with totalitarian unfreedom.

George Orwell's Animal Farm

George Orwell's Animal Farm
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Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Total Pages : 175
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ISBN-10 : 9781438128719
ISBN-13 : 1438128711
Rating : 4/5 (19 Downloads)

Book Synopsis George Orwell's Animal Farm by : Harold Bloom

Download or read book George Orwell's Animal Farm written by Harold Bloom and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the characters, plot, and writing of Animal farm by George Orwell. Includes critical essays on the novel and a brief biography of the author.

George Orwell

George Orwell
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Publisher : McFarland
Total Pages : 211
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ISBN-10 : 9781476634548
ISBN-13 : 1476634548
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Book Synopsis George Orwell by : Mark Connelly

Download or read book George Orwell written by Mark Connelly and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Orwell (1903-1950) is one of the most influential authors in the English language. His landmark novels Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) have been translated into many foreign languages and inspired numerous stage and film adaptations. His well-known essays "A Hanging" and "Shooting an Elephant" are widely anthologized and often taught in college composition classes. The writer is credited with inventing the terms "Big Brother," "thought crime," "unperson" and "double think." His name itself has become an adjective--"Orwellian." Seventy years after its publication, Nineteen Eighty-Four remains very popular, its sales surging in an era of enhanced surveillance and media manipulation. This literary companion provides an extensive chronology and more than 175 entries about both his literary works and personal life. Also included are discussion questions and research topics, notable quotations by Orwell and an extensive bibliography of related sources.

Decency and Difference

Decency and Difference
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Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Total Pages : 288
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ISBN-10 : 9780472131624
ISBN-13 : 0472131621
Rating : 4/5 (24 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Decency and Difference by : Steven C Roach

Download or read book Decency and Difference written by Steven C Roach and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2019-11-08 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decency remains one of the most prevalent yet least understood terms in today’s political discourse. In evoking respect, kindness, courage, integrity, reason, and tolerance, it has long expressed an unquestioned duty and belief in promoting and protecting the dignity of all persons. Today this unquestioned belief is in crisis. Tribalism and identity politics have both hindered and threatened its moral stability and efficacy. Still, many continue to undertheorize its political character by isolating it from the effects of identity politics. Decency and Difference argues that decency is a primary source of the political tension that has long shaped the struggles for power, identity, and justice in the global arena. It distinguishes among basic, conservative, and liberal strands of decency to critically examine the many conflicting and competing applications of decency in global politics. Together these different strands reflect a long and uneven evolution from the British and American empires to a global network of justice. This powerful book exposes the gaps of decency and the disparate ways it is practiced, thus addressing the global challenge of configuring a diverse political ethic of decency.

Elizabeth Taylor

Elizabeth Taylor
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Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages : 195
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ISBN-10 : 9781443836876
ISBN-13 : 1443836877
Rating : 4/5 (76 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Elizabeth Taylor by : N. H. Reeve

Download or read book Elizabeth Taylor written by N. H. Reeve and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01-17 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elizabeth Taylor (1912–75) is increasingly being recognised as one of the leading English novelists and short story writers of the middle of the twentieth century. Successive generations of readers have delighted in her subtle and penetrating exposures of the vanities and self-delusions of everyday life, her special sensitivity to frustration and disappointment, and the marvellous freshness of her wit and humour. Now, to mark the centenary of her birth, Elizabeth Taylor: A Centenary Celebration presents several new critical assessments of her work by leading academics, together with a sizeable number of Taylor’s uncollected or unpublished writings: short stories, including the first and the last she completed, essays on writers and writing, and a selection of letters to various correspondents, including Virginia Woolf and Elizabeth Bowen. Opening many previously unexplored perspectives on Taylor’s work, this volume will be essential reading for her admirers and for the wider study of the literature of her time.

The Cambridge Companion to Nineteen Eighty-Four

The Cambridge Companion to Nineteen Eighty-Four
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 311
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ISBN-10 : 9781108899703
ISBN-13 : 1108899706
Rating : 4/5 (03 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Nineteen Eighty-Four by : Nathan Waddell

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Nineteen Eighty-Four written by Nathan Waddell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) remains a book of the moment. This Companion builds on successive waves of generational inheritance and debate in the novel's reception by asking new questions about how and why Nineteen Eighty-Four was written, what it means, and why it matters. Chapters on a selection of the novel's interpretative contexts, the literary histories from which it is inseparable, the urgent questions it raises, and the impact it has had on other kinds of media, ranging from radio to video games, open up the conversation in an expansive way. Established concerns (e.g. Orwell's attitude to the working class, his anxieties about the socio-political compartmentalization of the post-war world) are presented alongside newer ones (e.g. his views on evil, and the influence of Nineteen Eighty-Four on comics). Individual essays help us see in new ways how Orwell's most famous work continues to be a novel for our times.