Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xv, 294 Seiten)
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ISBN:
9781108887090
Series Statement:
Cambridge companions to literature
Content:
George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) remains a book of the moment. This Companion builds on successive waves of generational inheritance and debate in the novel's reception by asking new questions about how and why Nineteen Eighty-Four was written, what it means, and why it matters. Chapters on a selection of the novel's interpretative contexts, the literary histories from which it is inseparable, the urgent questions it raises, and the impact it has had on other kinds of media, ranging from radio to video games, open up the conversation in an expansive way. Established concerns (e.g. Orwell's attitude to the working class, his anxieties about the socio-political compartmentalization of the post-war world) are presented alongside newer ones (e.g. his views on evil, and the influence of Nineteen Eighty-Four on comics). Individual essays help us see in new ways how Orwell's most famous work continues to be a novel for our times
Note:
Introduction: Orwell's book / Nathan Waddell -- Teaching and learning in and beyond Nineteen eighty-four / Natasha Periyan -- The virtual geographies of Nineteen eighty-four / Douglas Kerr -- The politics of the archive in Nineteen eighty-four / Diletta De Cristofaro -- Orwell and humanism / David Dwan -- Nineteen eighty-fourand the tradition of satire / Jonathan Greenberg -- Orwell's literary context / Lisa Mullen -- Wells, Orwell, and the dictator / Sarah Cole -- Orwell's literary inheritors, 1950 to 2000 and beyond / Hollie D. Johnson -- Europe, refugees, and Nineteen eighty-four / Janice Ho -- The problem of hope : Orwell's workers / Elinor Taylor -- Oceania's dirt : filth, nausea, and disgust in Airstrip One / Nathan Waddell -- Room 101 : Orwell and the question of evil / Peter Brian Barry -- Nineteen eighty-four on radio, stage, and screen / Daniel Buckingham -- Making nineteen eighty Nineteen eighty-four musical : pop, rock, and opera / Jamie Wood -- Nineteen eighty-four and comics / Isabelle Licari-Guillaume -- 'In this game that we're playing' : Nineteen eighty-four and video games / Soraya Murray -- Coda: The imaginaries of Nineteen eighty-four / Adam Roberts
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Hardcover ISBN 978-1-108-84109-2
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Paperback ISBN 978-1-108-81471-3
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
Orwell, George 1903-1950 Nineteen eighty-four
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DOI:
10.1017/9781108887090
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