The Unexamined Orwell / / John Rodden.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Rodden, John,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Literary Modernism
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (415 p.)

The year 1984 is just a memory, but the catchwords of George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four still routinely pepper public discussions of topics ranging from government surveillance and privacy invasion to language corruption and bureaucratese. Orwell's work pervades the cultural imagi...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction Afterthoughts on His Afterlives
• Part One If the Mantle Fits . . .
• Chapter 1 Virtuous Men? or “The American Orwell” (I)
• Chapter 2 “Dear Dwight,” or “The American Orwell” (II)
• Chapter 3 “St. Irving”? or “The American Orwell” (III)
• Chapter 4 Fellow Contrarians? or “The (Anglo-)American Orwell” (IV)
• Chapter 5 “True Patriot and Traditionalist,” or “The (Hungarian-)American Orwell” (V)
• Part Two Politics and the German Language
• Chapter 6 The (Un-rosy) State of Orwellian Unlearning
• Chapter 7 Books That Led to Miniluv
• Chapter 8 2 + 2 = 5?
• Chapter 9 Behind the Wall, or How the Eurasian Reich Viewed Oceania
• Chapter 10 Revenge of the Thought Police
• Part Three The Un(der)examined Orwell
• Chapter 11 Did Papa Rescue St. George?
• Chapter 12 Big Rock (Sugar)candy Mountain?
• Chapter 13 Literacy and the English Language
• Chapter 14 George Orwell, Literary Theorist?
• Chapter 15 The Architectonics of Room 101
• Chapter 16 The Review Orwell Never Wrote?
• Chapter 17 The Life Orwell Never Lived?
• Chapter 18 The Centenarian, Our Contemporary
• Conclusion If He Had Lived . . .
• Notes
• Index