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The Orwell conundrum : a cry of despair or faith in the spirit of man? / Erika Gottlieb.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gottlieb, Erika, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Orwell, George, 1903-1950. Nineteen eighty-four.
- Orwell, George.
- Orwell, George, 1903-1950--Criticism and interpretation.
- English literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (327 p.)
- Distribution:
- Don Mills, Ontario : Distributed by Oxford University Press Canada
- Beaconsfield, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, 2014
- Place of Publication:
- Ottawa [Ontario] : Carleton University Press, [1992]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- An important contribution to the understanding of George Orwell's thought, particularly to Nineteen Eighty Four. The author challenges the view of the novel as a flawed work of crushing pessimism, arguing convincingly that it is a great humanist's mature vision of his deeply troubled times.
- Contents:
- A cry of despair or faith in the "spirit of man"?
- Goldstein's book: the key to the decoding of the satire: the "secular religion" of totalitarianism
- Confronting the demonic in totalitarianism: Orwell and contemporaries
- Orwell's tragic humanism
- Coming through the other side: the metamorphosis of tragic irony into the militant wit of satire: an ultimate faith in the "spirit of man"
- Works cited
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [299]-308) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-7735-9151-6
- OCLC:
- 887634518
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