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George Orwell

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Abstract Few writers are better known than George Orwell. Even those who haven’t read him think they have. He is Britain’s most famous writer, known everywhere even in countries where he is banned. He’s in the media every day. There are hundreds of books about him—not just bi-ographical but fictional and non-fictional too, as well as ...
Skovmand, Michael   +2 more
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Nostalgia and Rejuvenation in Time of Crisis in George Orwell’s Coming Up for Air

open access: yesZanco Journal of Humanity Sciences, 2021
This paper is mainly intended to shed some critical and analytical lights on George Orwell’s fourth novel Coming up for Air (1939). Basically, the paper attempts to respond to certain questions concerning the nature of this novel, the most important of ...
Saffeen Numan Arif
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Temporalização e espacialização nas distopias de Haruki Murakami e George Orwell em 1Q84/1984

open access: yesAletria: Revista de Estudos de Literatura, 2016
O presente trabalho tem como seu principal objetivo pensar as questões da espacialização e da temporalização da distopia no romance 1Q84 do escritor japonês Haruki Murakami a partir de uma comparação com a obra homônima escrita por George Orwell ...
Rafael da Cunha Duarte Francisco
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What England Is and What It Claims to Be: Orwell on National Identity

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article suggests that George Orwell's body of work offers a rather unique and insightful two‐part conception of national identity in the context of England, made up of a moral inheritance—the values of liberty, fairness and decency—and a lived sensibility—the fluid, experiential quality of collective life expressed in shared customs ...
Sam Taylor Hill
wiley   +1 more source

“The road from Mandalay to Wigan is a long one and the reasons for taking it aren’t immediately clear”: A World-System Biography of George Orwell

open access: yesJournal of World-Systems Research, 2015
George Orwell is one the best known and highly regarded writers of the twentieth century. In his adjective form—Orwellian—he has become a “Sartrean ‘singular universal,’ an individual whose “singular” experiences express the “universal” character of a ...
Brendan McQuade
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The Role of Propaganda in George Orwell's Animal Farm

open access: yesالأستاذ, 2021
Animal Farm is a novel of pure propaganda. Orwell himself admits that he writes this novel in order to be a propaganda against the 'Soviet's myth', to expose Stalin's propaganda and Stalin's Communism.
Inst. Suaad Hussein Ali
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Radical dystopia: The comic modernism of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty‐Four

open access: yesOrbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract The present essay turns the received view of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty‐Four on its head, arguing that Orwell's dystopian classic mobilizes the modernist techniques of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land to lampoon the ideological fatalism of Eliot and other cultural conservatives.
Magnus Ullén
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CENTENÁRIO DE GEORGE ORWELL

open access: yesRevista Espaço Acadêmico, 2020
George Orwell, pseudônimo de Eric Arthur Blair, nasceu em 25 de junho de 1903, na cidade de Motihari, Bengala, região da Índia. De família inglesa, seu pai era funcionário da administração do império britânico.
Antonio Ozaí da Silva
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Michael G. Brennan: George Orwell and Religion

open access: yesEntangled Religions - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Religious Contact and Transfer, 2016
This contribution offers a review of: Michael G. Brennan: George Orwell and Religion. Bloomsbury Academic: London/Oxford/New York/New Delhi/Sydney, 2016. 208 pages, $94.00/£70.00, ISBN (hardback) 9781472531940.
Jeremy Crump
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