George Orwell / editor, John Rodden, Tunghai University, Taiwan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rodden, John, editor.

Series:

Critical insights.

Critical insights

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Orwell, George.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 293 pages).

Other Title:

Critical Insights

Place of Publication:

Ipswich, MA : Salem Press, c2012.

Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Edited by John Rodden, a renowned Orwell scholar, this volume in the Critical Insights series presents a variety of new essays on the British writer. For readers who are studying Orwell for the first time, a biographical sketch relates the details of his life and four essays survey the critical reception of Orwell's work, explore its cultural and historical contexts, situate Orwell among his contemporaries, and review key themes in his work. Readers seeking a deeper understanding of the writer can then move on to other essays that explore topics like Orwell's politics; his use of fable, satire and allegory; his outlook on science and technology; his reputation as a public intellectual; and his accomplishments as a journalist and documentarian. Uniquely, this volume also contains a short memoir by Dione Venables, whose cousin was a close childhood friend of Orwell. Works discussed include Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, Homage to Catalonia and The Road to Wigan Pier, and some Orwell's most memorable essays, like "Politics and the English Language" and "Why I Write.".

Contents:

On George Orwell / John Rodden

How Orwell became "a famous author" / John Rodden

Biography of George Orwell / John P. Rossi

Homage to my "intellectual big brother" / John Rodden

The historical background of Orwell's work / James Seaton

Comparison and contrast : Orwell, Hemingway, and the Spanish Civil War / William E. Cain

Orwell and reader-response theory / William E. Cain

George Orwell's critical reception / Loraine Saunders

Orwell's documentaries of the 1930s / Loraine Saunders

Orwell the essayist and journalist / James Seaton

Of communism, censorship, satire, and "little comrades" : Animal farm, Beijing, and the problem of genre / John Rodden

Nightmares of history : Animal farm and Nineteen eighty-four / Eugene Goodheart

Literary and scientific perspectives on Nineteen Eighty-Four / Peter Davison

Ideology versus psychology in Nineteen Eighty-Four : dystopia meets modernism / Gorman Beauchamp

George Orwell's Nineteen eighty-four in the twenty-first century / Peter Stansky

Veiled autobiography : George Orwell, Winston Smith, and Nineteen eighty-four / Henk Vynckier

The intellectual as critic and conscience : George Orwell and Albert Camus / John Rodden

George Orwell and Jacintha Buddicom : a memoir / Dione Venables

Resources : Chronology of George Orwell's life ; Works by George Orwell ; Bibliography.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 283) and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781283803786

128380378X

9781429837767

1429837764

OCLC:

820719528