Beschreibung
Beginning with a preface by Richard Blair, Orwell’s son,
brings together thirteen chapters by leading international scholars in four thematic sections. Peter Stansky, in an Afterword, argues that Orwell is now more relevant than ever before.
Autorenportrait
Richard Lance Keeble has been Professor of Journalism at the University of Lincoln since 2003. He is the author or editor of 30 books on a wide range of subjects. In 2014 he was given a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Association for Journalism Education.
Inhalt
Contents: Richard Blair: An In-Depth Look into Orwell’s Complex Mind – Richard Lance Keeble: Orwell Now: Nothing Less Than a Cultural Icon – Peter Marks: George Orwell and the History of Surveillance Studies – Florian Zollmann: Nineteen Eighty-Four in 2014: Power, Militarism and Surveillance in Western Democracies – Henk Vynckier: A Portrait of the Artist as a Collector: Tracing Orwell’s Collecting Project from Burma to Big Brother – Adam Stock: Little Nephews: Big Brother’s Literary Offspring – Paul Anderson: In Defence of Bernard Crick – Luke Seaber: Trust the Teller and Not the Tale: Reflections on Orwell’s Hidden Rhetoric of Truthfulness in the London Section of Down and Out in Paris and London – John Newsinger: Orwell’s Socialism – Philip Bounds: Sectarians on Wigan Pier: George Orwell and the Anti-Austerity Left in Britain – Marina Remy: First Encounters and the Writing of Otherness in Burmese Days and Keep the Aspidistra Flying – Sreya Mallika Datta/Utsa Mukherjee: «Pukka Sahibs» and «Yellow Faces»: Reassessing Ambivalence in Orwell’s Burma – Shu-chu Wei: Critiquing Communist Dictatorship East and West: George Orwell’s Animal Farm and Chen Jo-hsi’s Mayor Yin – Tim Crook: George Orwell and the Radio Imagination – Richard Lance Keeble: Orwell and the War Reporter’s Imagination – Peter Stansky: Why Orwell Is More Relevant Today Than Ever Before.
