George Orwell - 'Animal Farm', 'Nineteen Eighty-Four'

Informationen zum Autor DANIEL LEA is a lecturer in the Department of English Literature and Cultural History at Liverpool John Moores University. Klappentext George Orwell is a writer who has been appropriated by very different political regimes and opinions, pressed into service as his various critics have seen fit. Though a polemicist and satirist at heart, his anti-totalitarian ideals are expounded with deft story-telling and a simplicity that belies the ultimately complex debates to which he gave voice. The changing responses to his two classic novels, Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-four (1949), provide an illuminating account of the developing preoccupations of the second half of the 20th century. In this Readers' Guide, Daniel Lea takes a decisive path through the maze of interpretations that has accumulated around Orwell's best-known novels, examining critical reactions from the beginning of the Cold War through to the collapse of Communist Eastern Europe, and at the same time placing Orwell within a long tradition of dystopian writings. In exploringthe artistic, cultural and social contexts of Orwell's work, it is an essential resource for students and general readers alike. Zusammenfassung Daniel Lea takes a decisive path through the maze of interpretations that has accumulated around Orwell's best-known novels, examining critical reactions from the beginning of the Cold War through to the collapse of Communist Eastern Europe, and at the same time placing Orwell within a long tradition of dystopian writings.

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Lea, George Orwell
• Assisted by: Daniel Lea (Editor)
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.07.2001
• EAN: 9781840462548
• ISBN: 978-1-84046-254-8
• Series: Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism; Readers Guides to Essential Cr; Print on Demand; Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism; Readers' Guides to Essential C; Readers Guides to Essential Cr
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; B, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature