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- Orwell: Life and Art
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: University of Illinois Press
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This remarkable volume collects, for the first time, essays representing more than four decades of scholarship by one of the world's leading authorities on George Orwell. In clear, energetic prose that exemplifies his indefatigable attention to Orwell's life work, Jeffrey Meyers analyzes the works and reception of one of the most widely read and admired twentieth-century authors.
Orwell: Life and Art covers the novelist's painful childhood and presents accounts of his autobiographical writings from the beginning of his career through the Spanish Civil War. Meyers continues with analyses of Orwell's major works, including Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, as well as his style, distinctive satiric humor, and approach to the art of writing. Meyers ends with a scrupulous examination of six biographies of Orwell, including his own, that embodies a consummate grasp and mastery of both the art of biography and Orwell's life and legacy.
Writing with an authority born of decades of focused scholarship, visits to Orwell's homes and workplaces, and interviews with his survivors, Meyers sculpts a dynamic view of Orwell's enduring influence on literature, art, culture, and politics.
Table of Contents
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- Introduction
- pp. ix-xi
- I: THE LIFE
- 2. Orwell's Burma
- pp. 9-21
- 4. Orwell: The Honorary Proletarian
- pp. 27-46
- 7. Repeating the Old Lies
- pp. 75-80
- II: THE ART
- 9. Orwell as Film Critic
- pp. 94-100
- 10. The Reluctant Propagandist
- pp. 101-105
- 13. The Evolution of Nineteen Eighty-Four
- pp. 126-134
- 15. Miseries and Splendors of Scholarship
- pp. 147-152
- 16. The Completel Works of George Orwell
- pp. 153-157
- 17. Orwell: A Voice That Naked Goes
- pp. 158-167
- 18. Orwell and the Art of Writing
- pp. 168-187
- 19. Orwell's Satiric Humor
- pp. 188-198
- III: ORWELL AFTER ORWELL
- 20. Reviewing the Orwellians
- pp. 201-217
- 21. True to Life: Writing Orwell's Biography
- pp. 218-228
Additional Information
ISBN
9780252090226
Related ISBN(s)
9780252035616, 9780252077463
MARC Record
OCLC
867794030
Pages
272
Launched on MUSE
2013-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2010