Nineteen Eighty-Four. George Orwell

Ethics ◽  
1950 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 144-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Gardner
Keyword(s):  
George Orwell

Basic English

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
James McElvenny
Keyword(s):  
George Orwell ◽  
Jeremy Bentham ◽  
International Language ◽  
Basic English

This chapter explores C. K. Ogden’s project Basic English against the background of the contemporary international language movement. An exposition of the international language movement, its political and philosophical commitments, is followed by an examination of the features of Ogden’s Basic and the rhetoric surrounding it. The connections between the theories developed in The Meaning of Meaning and Basic English are looked at in detail. The chapter closes with a discussion of the influence of Jeremy Bentham and his Panopticon on Basic, and of the reaction of George Orwell to the project, as revealed in his published writings and correspondence with Ogden, and in Newspeak, his parody of constructed languages.

Orwell's ‘Barbarous’ Patriotism

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 372-389
Author(s):  
John Glassford
Keyword(s):  
George Orwell ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Attentive Reader ◽  
Default Position

It is not always clear what the well-spring of patriotic feeling might be, and ‘patriots’ often have difficulty articulating the origins of their passion, though sources are seldom mysterious. In this article, it is suggested that George Orwell was one such example. With the Lacanian proposition that the unconscious is structured like a language as a default position, it is evident that Orwell's texts on nationalism, patriotism, and education clearly exhibit confusion. More specifically, it is when Orwell tries to disentangle ‘Englishness’ from ‘Scottishness’ that we see that despite his apparent sophistication as a journalist and propagandist, his account of Englishness is little more than patriarchal, nationalist chauvinism of the kind he claimed to despise. The attentive reader can see it in his texts, but he was blind to the contradiction.

CARNAVALIZAR É PRECISO: UMA LEITURA DA PARÓDIA EM QUEM ME DERA SER ONDA

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Teresa Salgado
Keyword(s):  
George Orwell

Enfoque da novela Quem me dera ser onda, uma das mais conhecidas obras do escritor Manuel Rui e tambémda literatura angolana, a partir do diálogo que a obra sugere com A revolução dos bichos, um dos maispopulares clássicos do escritor inglês George Orwell. O conceito de carnavalização bakht iniana assim como ode paródia e de realismo grotesco são considerados instrumentos úteis para se pensar as condições culturaisda sociedade angolana na pós-independência.PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Quem me dera ser onda, A revolução dos bichos, carnavalização, paródia,realismo grotesco

Orley Farm

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony Trollope
Keyword(s):  
George Orwell ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Family Experience

There was a power of endurance about her, and a courage that was almost awful. Did Lady Mason forge a codicil to her husband's will, allowing Orley Farm to pass to her son or not? Orley Farm centres on this case of forgery, and the anguish and guilt of Lady Mason. Surrounding this enigmatic woman and her apparent crime are her elderly lover, Sir Peregrine Orme; her principled but thoughtless son, Lucius; and, not least, a group of determined lawyers. Orley Farm contains the plot with which Trollope was most pleased. Drawing on family experience of the loss of an inheritance, the novel tackles the tremendous question of property fraud. The result, as George Orwell observed, is one of the most brilliant novels about a law suit in English fiction. Orley Farm dates from a confident period of its authorâs life. It breathes an air of writerly assurance, with Trollope at the height of his competitiveness with Dickens. In this work Trollope claims the Victorian legal novel as his own.

The Complete Short Stories

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oscar Wilde
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Oscar Wilde ◽  
George Orwell ◽  
Social Observation

‘Wilde did not converse - he told tales.’ Oscar Wilde was already famous as a brilliant wit and raconteur when he first began to publish his short stories in the late 1880s. They have never lacked readers and admirers, George Orwell and W. B. Yeats among them. The stories give free rein to Wilde's originality, literary skill, and sophistication. They include poignant fairy-tales such as ‘The Happy Prince’ and ‘The Selfish Giant’, and the extravagant comedy and social observation of ‘Lord Arthur Savile's Crime’ and ‘The Canterville Ghost’. They also encompass the daring narrative experiments of ‘The Portrait of Mr. W. H.’, Wilde's fictional investigation into the identity of the dedicatee of Shakespeare's sonnets, and the ‘Poems in Prose’, based on the Gospel stories. This edition demonstrates the centrality of Wilde's shorter fiction in his literary career, and his continuing development and experimentation with the short story format. Combining myth, romance, and irony, Wilde's stories enthral and challenge the reader. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

George Orwell, the Movies, Wartime England and Me

Society ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 57 (6) ◽  
pp. 593-595
Author(s):  
John Rodden
Keyword(s):  
George Orwell
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