β Scribed by Peter Buitenhuis, Ira B. Nadel (eds.)
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Orwell and English Socialism....Pages 3-19
Front Matter....Pages 21-21
George Orwellβs Nineteen Eighty-Four: The Future that Becomes the Past....Pages 23-31
From History to Psychological Grotesque: The Politics of Sado-Masochism in Nineteen Eighty-Four ....Pages 32-50
Room 101 Revisited: The Reconciliation of Political and Psychological Dimensions in Orwellβs Nineteen Eighty-Four ....Pages 51-76
False Freedom and Orwellβs Faust-Book Nineteen Eighty-Four ....Pages 77-90
Front Matter....Pages 91-91
Words, Deeds and Things: Orwellβs Quarrel with Language....Pages 93-101
Bentham and Basic English: The βPious Foundersβ of Newspeak....Pages 102-113
Orwell and the Language: Speaking the Truth in Homage to Catalonia ....Pages 114-125
Orwellβs Nineteen Eighty-Four and Maoβs Cultural Revolution....Pages 126-135
Front Matter....Pages 137-137
Orwell and Eliot: Politics, Poetry, Prose....Pages 139-156
Orwell as Literary Critic: A Reassessment....Pages 157-177
Panel Discussion....Pages 178-187
Back Matter....Pages 188-206
British and Irish Literature; Twentieth-Century Literature
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