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“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

Journal 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

الأستاذ, 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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‘In Spain with Orwell’: George Orwell and the Independent Labour Party volunteers in the Spanish Civil War [PDF]

, 2014
Book review: Christopher Hall, "‘In Spain with Orwell’: George Orwell and the Independent Labour Party volunteers in the Spanish Civil War, Tippermuir Books, Perth, Scotland, 2013, pp.
Burrowes, Darryl Anthony
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Censorship and Orwell’s legacy: Interview with Jean Seaton [PDF]

, 2010
Censorship and Orwell’s Legacy: An interview with Jean Seaton, questions by Benedetta ...
Brevini, B
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We Do Not Know Propositions

Theoria, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Contemporary epistemologists analysing knowledge take (true) propositions to be the object of knowledge. In this paper, I provide an argument for the claim that the object of knowledge is, in fact, the world. The propositions in propositional knowledge ascriptions merely describe the part of the world of which the subject is aware. Kent Bach's
Tess Dewhurst
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CENTENÁRIO DE GEORGE ORWELL

Revista 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

Entangled 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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[Review of] Gerald Vizenor. Wordarrows: Indians and Whites in the New Fur Trade [PDF]

, 1980
It was George Orwell who saw, more clearly than most, that “newspeak” was often used by government and public institutions in communicating with their public.
GalIi, Marcia J.
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George Orwell e os desdobramentos literários de uma presença no front

Aletria: Revista de Estudos de Literatura, 2009
Esse trabalho apresenta as circunstâncias que rodeiam a ida de George Orwell como combatente voluntário à Espanha e a redação de Homage to Catalonia após seu retorno à Inglaterra.
Carlos Gohn
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Was George Orwell a Metaphysical Realist?

Philosophia Scientiæ, 2008
The core of George Orwell’s novel 1984 is the debate between Winston Smith and O’Brien in the cells of the Ministry of Love. It is natural to read this debate as a debate between a realist (as regards the nature of truth) and an anti-realist.
Peter van Inwagen
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