George Orwell: The Politics of Literary ReputationTransaction Publishers, 31. 12. 2001. - 510 страница "A remarkably thorough examination of how Orwell's reputation has grown over the four decades since his death.This is a book that all future Orwell scholars will need to consult and take into account."-New York Times "The most remarkable book I have yet read on how reputations come into being.A pioneer work in its genre, teaching us how little fame is usually dependent on the nature of a writer's achievement."-Toronto Globe and Mail The making of literary reputations is as much a reflection of a writer's surrounding culture and politics as it is of the intrinsic quality and importance of his work. The current stature of George Orwell, commonly recognized as the foremost political journalist and essayist of the century, provides a notable instance of a writer whose legacy has been claimed from a host of contending political interests. The exemplary clarity and force of his style, the rectitude of his political judgment along with his personal integrity have made him, as he famously noted of Dickens, a writer well worth stealing. Thus, the intellectual battles over Orwell's posthumous career point up ambiguities in Orwell's own work as they do in the motives of his would-be heirs. John Rodden's George Orwell: The Politics of Literary Reputation, breaks new ground in bringing Orwell's work into proper focus while providing much original insight into the phenomenon of literary fame. Rodden's intent is to clarify who Orwell was as a writer during his lifetime and who he became after his death. He explores the dichotomies between the novelist and the essayist, the socialist and the anti-communist and the contrast between his day-to-day activities as a journalist and his latter-day elevation to political prophet and secular saint. Rodden's approach is both contextual and textual, analyzing available reception materials on Orwell along with audiences and publications decisive for shaping his reputation. He then offers a detailed historical and biographical interpretation of the reception scene analyzing how and why did individuals and audiences cast Orwell in their own images and how these projected images served their own political needs and aspirations. Examined here are the views of Orwell as quixotic moralist, socialist renegade, anarchist, English patriot, neo-conservative, forerunner of cultural studies, and even media and commercial star. Rodden concludes with a consideration of the meaning of Orwell's life and work for the future. John Rodden is professor of rhetoric at the University of Texas at Austin. |
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... left. Orwell's predicament four decades after his death is not unlike what he called Kipling's "peculiar position of having been a byword for fifty years." "Before one can speak about Kipling," wrote Orwell in a prophetically self ...
... left. Orwell's predicament four decades after his death is not unlike what he called Kipling's "peculiar position of having been a byword for fifty years." "Before one can speak about Kipling," wrote Orwell in a prophetically self ...
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... Left critics like Isaac Deutscher and James Walsh asserted the same identity to merge the man and Nineteen Eighty-Four into a bogeyman figure. Woodcock's pure, clean stylist was Walsh's "hysterical, shrieking" slogan-monger and anti ...
... Left critics like Isaac Deutscher and James Walsh asserted the same identity to merge the man and Nineteen Eighty-Four into a bogeyman figure. Woodcock's pure, clean stylist was Walsh's "hysterical, shrieking" slogan-monger and anti ...
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... Left in London and New York that Orwell was an internal critic of the Left and yet not a bitter ex-socialist.40 Part of Orwell's problem was that he was now addressing a much wider audience, politically and culturally, than earlier in ...
... Left in London and New York that Orwell was an internal critic of the Left and yet not a bitter ex-socialist.40 Part of Orwell's problem was that he was now addressing a much wider audience, politically and culturally, than earlier in ...
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... Left- Wing Police State Which Controls His Mind and Soul." Soon thereafter pro-McCarthyite organs like The Freeman began suggesting that Adlai Stevenson's advisers were "sicklied over" with the vision of a nation "wet-nursed by a Big ...
... Left- Wing Police State Which Controls His Mind and Soul." Soon thereafter pro-McCarthyite organs like The Freeman began suggesting that Adlai Stevenson's advisers were "sicklied over" with the vision of a nation "wet-nursed by a Big ...
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... Left climaxed during late 1983 and early 1984. Norman Podhoretz, neoconservative editor of Commentary, argued that "If Orwell Were Alive Today," he "would be taking his stand with the neoconservatives and against the Left" on everything ...
... Left climaxed during late 1983 and early 1984. Norman Podhoretz, neoconservative editor of Commentary, argued that "If Orwell Were Alive Today," he "would be taking his stand with the neoconservatives and against the Left" on everything ...
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Conditions Constraints | 53 |
PART TWO THE PORTRAIT GALLERY | 103 |
Chapter Four The Common Man | 171 |
Chapter Five The Prophet | 244 |
Chapter Six The Saint | 322 |
The Intellectual | 399 |
Acknowledgments | 406 |
A Glossary | 465 |
Index | 497 |
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