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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... called "the rhetoric of reception." Empirically grounded in the historical materials of Orwell's reception, such a rhetoric would posit concepts that could illuminate the development and transformations of his own reputation. (For this ...
... called "the rhetoric of reception." Empirically grounded in the historical materials of Orwell's reception, such a rhetoric would posit concepts that could illuminate the development and transformations of his own reputation. (For this ...
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... called this study The Politics of Literary Reputation: The Making and Claiming of 'Saint George ' Orwell. However prolix, that title aimed to signal that reputation emerges through a social process contingent on innumerable factors ...
... called this study The Politics of Literary Reputation: The Making and Claiming of 'Saint George ' Orwell. However prolix, that title aimed to signal that reputation emerges through a social process contingent on innumerable factors ...
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... called grave-robbing which has attended it. Although this study treats selected aspects of Orwell's reputation from several perspectives through the year 1988, much of my attention is focused upon two periods: the postwar decade and the ...
... called grave-robbing which has attended it. Although this study treats selected aspects of Orwell's reputation from several perspectives through the year 1988, much of my attention is focused upon two periods: the postwar decade and the ...
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... called, during the early years of the Cold War in postwar Britain, "that painful and . . . almost insoluble problem, the relation of literature to society."2 Although Marxist literary criticism, literary sociology, and German reception ...
... called, during the early years of the Cold War in postwar Britain, "that painful and . . . almost insoluble problem, the relation of literature to society."2 Although Marxist literary criticism, literary sociology, and German reception ...
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... called "the task and promise" of "the sociological imagination": "to understand the intersections of biography and history within society," "to shift from one perspective to another [and] thereby to know the social and historical ...
... called "the task and promise" of "the sociological imagination": "to understand the intersections of biography and history within society," "to shift from one perspective to another [and] thereby to know the social and historical ...
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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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