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Autore |
Stewart Anthony <1964-, > |
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Titolo |
George Orwell, doubleness, and the value of decency / / by Anthony Stewart |
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New York : , : Routledge, , 2003 |
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ISBN |
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1-135-92443-0 |
1-135-92444-9 |
1-138-97514-1 |
1-280-07622-4 |
0-203-48952-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (216 p.) |
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Collana |
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Studies in major literary authors ; ; v. 32 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Difference (Psychology) in literature |
Conduct of life in literature |
Ethics in literature |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-191) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; On Decency, Doubleness, and Updating Orwell; Hardly Above Suspicion: Hypocrisy, Decency, and Sincerity in Burmese Days; The Secret Art of Not Making Good: Gordon Comstock's Childish Narrowness in Keep the Aspidistra Flying; An Absence of Pampering: The Betrayal of the Rebellion and the End of Decency in Animal Farm; The Heresy of Common Sense: The Prohibition of Decency in Nineteen Eighty-Four; Conclusion: Decency or Tolerance?; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In its analysis of Animal Farm, Burmese Days, Keep the Aspidistra Flying and Nineteen Eighty-Four, this book argues that George Orwell's fiction and non-fiction weigh the benefits and costs of a doubled perspective. |
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