Or Orwell
WOLOCH, Alex
Or Orwell Writing and Democratic Socialism / [online] : Alex Woloch - Harvard University Press, 2016 - 1 online resource (378 p.)
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Prologue -- Introduction -- PART ONE. Paradoxes of the Plain Style -- 1. "Quite Bare" -- 2. "Getting to Work" -- 3. "Semi-Sociological" -- PART TWO. On the Threshold of Liberty -- 4. The Column as Form -- 5. Writing's Outside -- 6. First-Person Socialism -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Acknowledgments -- Index
There have been many studies of George Orwell, but nothing quite like this book by Alex Woloch-an exuberant, revisionary account of Orwell's radical writing. Bearing down on the propulsive irony and formal restlessness intertwined with his plain-style, Woloch offers a new understanding of Orwell and a new way of thinking about writing and politics.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780674495074
10.4159/9780674495074 doi
DE-Limba și literatura engleză
resursă online
PR6029.R8 / Z89 2015
Or Orwell Writing and Democratic Socialism / [online] : Alex Woloch - Harvard University Press, 2016 - 1 online resource (378 p.)
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Prologue -- Introduction -- PART ONE. Paradoxes of the Plain Style -- 1. "Quite Bare" -- 2. "Getting to Work" -- 3. "Semi-Sociological" -- PART TWO. On the Threshold of Liberty -- 4. The Column as Form -- 5. Writing's Outside -- 6. First-Person Socialism -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Acknowledgments -- Index
There have been many studies of George Orwell, but nothing quite like this book by Alex Woloch-an exuberant, revisionary account of Orwell's radical writing. Bearing down on the propulsive irony and formal restlessness intertwined with his plain-style, Woloch offers a new understanding of Orwell and a new way of thinking about writing and politics.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780674495074
10.4159/9780674495074 doi
DE-Limba și literatura engleză
resursă online
PR6029.R8 / Z89 2015