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. |
Из књиге
Резултати 1-5 од 78
Страница xi
... question of reputation as an artistic and social phenomenon. My focus centered on the dynamics of image-making, a process that I have termed "reputation-formation." What ultimately emerged was a rudimentary vocabulary that outlined a ...
... question of reputation as an artistic and social phenomenon. My focus centered on the dynamics of image-making, a process that I have termed "reputation-formation." What ultimately emerged was a rudimentary vocabulary that outlined a ...
Страница xii
... questions were the following: • How and why did these individuals and audiences treat Orwell as they did? • How and why did readers, especially intellectuals, cast Orwell in their own images? • How did their projected images of him ...
... questions were the following: • How and why did these individuals and audiences treat Orwell as they did? • How and why did readers, especially intellectuals, cast Orwell in their own images? • How did their projected images of him ...
Страница 4
... questions about him not only timely but collectively self-revealing. One index to a culture is the figures it exalts. Literary critics and sociologists have scarcely touched upon these questions. No study has directly addressed the ...
... questions about him not only timely but collectively self-revealing. One index to a culture is the figures it exalts. Literary critics and sociologists have scarcely touched upon these questions. No study has directly addressed the ...
Страница 5
... questions, and in the course of these pages I have tried to respond to the pertinent issues, but the questions themselves are too baldly put. Orwell is arguably partly "responsible" for or complicitous in some of the abuses of his work ...
... questions, and in the course of these pages I have tried to respond to the pertinent issues, but the questions themselves are too baldly put. Orwell is arguably partly "responsible" for or complicitous in some of the abuses of his work ...
Страница 10
... question of heroes and hero worship hovers at the border of any study of the making of a literary figure. "The need for heroism is not easy to admit," wrote Ernest Becker in The Denial of Death. "To be conscious of what one is doing to ...
... question of heroes and hero worship hovers at the border of any study of the making of a literary figure. "The need for heroism is not easy to admit," wrote Ernest Becker in The Denial of Death. "To be conscious of what one is doing to ...
Садржај
3 | |
13 | |
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 |
Друга издања - Прикажи све
Чести термини и фразе
admirers already American Animal Farm appeared approach associated attention audiences became become biography British called canon Catholic CEJL claim Collection common course Crick critics cultural discussion early English especially essay example experience face fact feminist figure friends Fyvel George Orwell German hero Hollis influence institutional intellectual interest issues January John journalism language Left less letters liberal literary literature lived London March Marxism means never Nineteen Eighty-Four noted novel observers Orwell's reputation Orwellian Partisan Party Podhoretz political popular position practice present prophet published question Quixote quoted radical readers rebel reception reference reflected relation response Review rhetoric Right saint scene seemed sense social socialist sometimes Soviet suggests tion tradition Tribune Trilling Trilling's truth turn unlike voice watchwords widely Woodcock writer wrote York