The Unexamined Orwell
แแแ. 2012 ยท University of Texas Press
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A reflection on Orwell-as-idea that โoutlines some of the misconceptions and misuses of the Orwell nameโ (Modern Fiction Studies).
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The year 1984 is just a memory, but the catchwords of George Orwellโs novel Nineteen Eighty-Four still routinely pepper public discussions of topics ranging from government surveillance and privacy invasion to language corruption and bureaucratese. Orwellโs work pervades the cultural imagination, while others of his literary generation are long forgotten.
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Exploring this astonishing afterlife has become the scholarly vocation of John Rodden, who is now the leading authority on the reception, impact, and reinvention of George Orwellโthe man and writerโas well as of โOrwellโ the cultural icon and historical talisman. In The Unexamined Orwell, Rodden delves into dimensions of Orwellโs life and legacy that have escaped the critical glare. He discusses how several leading American intellectuals have earned the title of Orwellโs โsuccessor,โ including Lionel Trilling, Dwight Macdonald, Irving Howe, Christopher Hitchens, and John Lukacs. He then turns to Germany and focuses on the role and relevance of Nineteen Eighty-Four in the now-defunct communist nation of East Germany. Rodden also addresses myths that have grown up around Orwellโs life, including his โmore than half-legendaryโ encounter with Ernest Hemingway in liberated Paris in March 1945, and analyzes literary issues such as his utopian sensibility and his prose style.
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Finally, Rodden poses the endlessly debated question, โWhat would George Orwell do?โ and speculates about how the prophet of Nineteen Eighty-Four would have reacted to world events. In so doing, Rodden shows how our responses to this question reveal much about our cultureโs ongoing need to reappropriate โOrwell.โ
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The year 1984 is just a memory, but the catchwords of George Orwellโs novel Nineteen Eighty-Four still routinely pepper public discussions of topics ranging from government surveillance and privacy invasion to language corruption and bureaucratese. Orwellโs work pervades the cultural imagination, while others of his literary generation are long forgotten.
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Exploring this astonishing afterlife has become the scholarly vocation of John Rodden, who is now the leading authority on the reception, impact, and reinvention of George Orwellโthe man and writerโas well as of โOrwellโ the cultural icon and historical talisman. In The Unexamined Orwell, Rodden delves into dimensions of Orwellโs life and legacy that have escaped the critical glare. He discusses how several leading American intellectuals have earned the title of Orwellโs โsuccessor,โ including Lionel Trilling, Dwight Macdonald, Irving Howe, Christopher Hitchens, and John Lukacs. He then turns to Germany and focuses on the role and relevance of Nineteen Eighty-Four in the now-defunct communist nation of East Germany. Rodden also addresses myths that have grown up around Orwellโs life, including his โmore than half-legendaryโ encounter with Ernest Hemingway in liberated Paris in March 1945, and analyzes literary issues such as his utopian sensibility and his prose style.
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Finally, Rodden poses the endlessly debated question, โWhat would George Orwell do?โ and speculates about how the prophet of Nineteen Eighty-Four would have reacted to world events. In so doing, Rodden shows how our responses to this question reveal much about our cultureโs ongoing need to reappropriate โOrwell.โ
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JOHN RODDEN has taught at the University of Virginia and the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author or editor of Every Intellectualโs Big Brother: George Orwellโs Literary Siblings; The Politics of Literary Reputation: The Making and Claiming of St. George Orwell; Scenes from an Afterlife: The Legacy of George Orwell; Understanding Animal Farm in Historical Context; and George Orwell: Into The Twenty-First Century, among other books.
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