Becoming George Orwell : life and letters, legend and legacy /

"Is George Orwell the most influential writer who ever lived? Yes, according to John Rodden's provocative book about the transformation of a man into a myth. Rodden does not argue that Orwell was the most distinguished man of letters of the last century, nor even the leading novelist of hi...

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Kaituhi matua: Rodden, John (Author)
Hōputu: Licensed eBooks
Reo:Ingarihi
I whakaputaina: Princeton : Princeton University Press [2020]
Urunga tuihono:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvc77d2x
Rārangi ihirangi:
  • Prologue. Donald and Winston at the ministry of alternative facts
  • Introduction. Orwell, my "Orwell"
  • Part 1. Life and letters
  • The quixotic, adamantly unsainted life he lived
  • Frenemies at fisticuffs? The debate rounds of two cordially contentious old Etonians
  • The literary breakthrough, or when Blair became Orwell
  • Orwell's twin masterpieces, Animal farm and Nineteen eighty-four
  • A "utopian" edition of a dystopian classic
  • England's prose laureate
  • Part 2. Legend and legacy
  • French connection, part 1: Jean Malaquais, a "French Orwell"?
  • French connection, part 2: Camus and Orwell, Rebelles avec une cause
  • How and why Orwell became "a famous author": surfing the tides of time
  • "Catholic exceptionalism": why Catholic America canonized "St. George"
  • "Orwellian" warfare: from cold to cyber
  • Why I am not a socialist
  • Conclusion. Whither Orwell
  • and "Orwell"?