Orwell : life and art / Jeffrey Meyers.

Author/creator Meyers, Jeffrey
Format Book
Publication InfoUrbana : University of Illinois Press, ©2010.
Descriptionxi, 256 pages : map ; 23 cm
Subjects

Contents 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 1930s -- 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 orwellians -- True to life : writing Orwell's biography.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p.[231]-249) and index.
LCCN 2010030298
ISBN9780252035616 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN0252035615 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN9780252077463 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0252077466 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PR6029.R8 Z73555 2010 ✔ Available Place Hold