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Why Orwell Matters

Why Orwell Matters

Author: Christopher Hitchens

Publisher: Hachette UK

ISBN: 9780786725892

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 352

View: 704

In this widely acclaimed biographical essay, the masterful polemicist Christopher Hitchens assesses the life, the achievements, and the myth of the great political writer and participant George Orwell. True to his contrarian style, Hitchens is both admiring and aggressive, sympathetic yet critical, taking true measure of his subject as hero and problem. Answering both the detractors and the false claimants, Hitchens tears down the façe of sainthood erected by the hagiographers and rebuts the critics point by point. He examines Orwell and his perspectives on fascism, empire, feminism, and Englishness, as well as his outlook on America, a country and culture towards which he exhibited much ambivalence. Whether thinking about empires or dictators, race or class, nationalism or popular culture, Orwell's moral outlook remains indispensable in a world that has undergone vast changes in the seven decades since his death. Combining the best of Hitchens' polemical punch and intellectual elegance in a tightly woven and subtle argument, this book addresses not only why Orwell matters today, but how he will continue to matter in a future, uncertain world.
Why Orwell Matters
Language: en
Pages: 352

Why Orwell Matters

Authors: Christopher Hitchens
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-08-06 - Publisher: Hachette UK

In this widely acclaimed biographical essay, the masterful polemicist Christopher Hitchens assesses the life, the achievements, and the myth of the great political writer and participant George Orwell. True to his contrarian style, Hitchens is both admiring and aggressive, sympathetic yet critical, taking true measure of his subject as hero
Every Intellectual's Big Brother
Language: en
Pages: 280

Every Intellectual's Big Brother

Authors: John Rodden
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-03-06 - Publisher: University of Texas Press

George Orwell has been embraced, adopted, and co-opted by everyone from the far left to the neoconservatives. Each succeeding generation of Anglo-American intellectuals has felt compelled to engage the life, work, and cultural afterlife of Orwell, who is considered by many to have been the foremost political writer of the
Unhitched
Language: en
Pages: 160

Unhitched

Authors: Richard Seymour
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-01-16 - Publisher: Verso Books

Among the forgettable ranks of ex-Leftists, Christopher Hitchens stands out as someone determined to stand out. Rejecting the well-worn paths of hard-right evangelism and capitalist “realism,” he identified with nothing outside his own idiosyncrasies. A habitual mugwump who occasionally masqueraded as a “Marxist,” the role he adopted late in his
George Orwell
Language: en
Pages: 328

George Orwell

Authors: Thomas Cushman, John Rodden
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-11-17 - Publisher: Routledge

The year 2003 was the 100th anniversary of the birth of George Orwell, one of the most influential authors of the twentieth century. Orwell's books are assigned today in over 60,000 classrooms annually. In this book essays by prominent writers and scholars explain why his impact continues in a world
Mass Media, Mass Propaganda
Language: en
Pages: 329

Mass Media, Mass Propaganda

Authors: Anthony R. Dimaggio
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008 - Publisher: Lexington Books

Examines the participation of pro-war, mass-media corporations in creating and selling the Iraq War and the War on Terrorism to a frightened American public.

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