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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464264503321

Autore

Meyers Jeffrey

Titolo

Orwell [[electronic resource] ] : life and art / / Jeffrey Meyers

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2010

ISBN

1-283-02880-8

9786613028808

0-252-09022-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (271 p.)

Disciplina

828/.91209

Soggetti

Authors, English - 20th century

Journalists - Great Britain

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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.