Orwell : life and art / Jeffrey Meyers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Meyers, Jeffrey.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authors, English--20th century--Biography.

Authors, English.

Journalists--Great Britain--Biography.

Journalists.

Orwell, George, 1903-1950--Criticism and interpretation.

Orwell, George.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (271 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This remarkable volume collects, for the first time, essays representing more than four decades of scholarship by one of the world's leading authorities on George Orwell. In clear, energetic prose that exemplifies his indefatigable attention to Orwell's life work, Jeffrey Meyers analyzes the works and reception of one of the most widely read and admired twentieth-century authors._x000B__x000B_Orwell: Life and Art covers the novelist's painful childhood and presents accounts of his autobiographical writings from the beginning of his career through the Spanish Civil War. Meyers continues with analyses of Orwell's major works, including Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, as well as his style, distinctive satiric humor, and approach to the art of writing. Meyers ends with a scrupulous examination of six biographies of Orwell, including his own, that embodies a consummate grasp and mastery of both the art of biography and Orwell's life and legacy._x000B__x000B_Writing with an authority born of decades of focused scholarship, visits to Orwell's homes and workplaces, and interviews with his survivors, Meyers sculpts a dynamic view of Orwell's enduring influence on literature, art, culture, and politics.

Contents:

The life

Orwell's painful childhood

Orwell's Burma

The ethics of responsibility : Burmese days

Orwell : the honorary proletarian

Orwell and the experience of France

"An affirming flame" : homage to Catalonia

Repeating the old lies

The art

Orwell's apocalypse : coming up for air

Orwell as film critic

The reluctant propagandist

The wind in the willows : a new source for Animal farm

Orwell's bestiary : the political allegory of Animal farm

The evolution of Nineteen eighty-four

Nineteen eighty-four : a novel of the 1930's

Miseries and splendors of scholarship

The complete works of George Orwell

Orwell : a voice that naked goes

Orwell and the art of writing

Orwell's satiric humor

Orwell after Orwell

Reviewing the Orwellian's

True to life : writing Orwell's biography.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p.[231]-249) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786613028808

9781283028806

1283028808

9780252090226

0252090225

OCLC:

709664729