George Orwell Now!: Preface by Richard Blair, Son of George Orwell

ISBN-13: 9781433129834 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 235 str.

Richard Lance Keeble;Richard Blair

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George Orwell remains an iconic figure today even though he died in 1950. His dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four depicts a Big Brother society in which the state intrudes into the most intimate details of people s lives and, not surprisingly, it became a constant reference point after Edward Snowden s revelations. The word -Orwellian- is constantly in the media used either as a pejorative adjective to evoke totalitarian terror or as a complimentary adjective to mean -displaying outspoken intellectual honesty-. Interest in Orwell s life and writings globally continues unabated.
Beginning with a preface by Richard Blair, Orwell s son, George Orwell Now brings together thirteen chapters by leading international scholars in four thematic sections:
Peter Marks on Orwell and the history of surveillance studies; Florian Zollmann on Nineteen Eighty-Four in 2014; Henk Vynckier on Orwell s collecting project; and Adam Stock on Big Brother s Literary Offspring
Paul Anderson -In Defence of Bernard Crick-; Luke Seaber on the -London Section of Down and Out in Paris and London-; John Newsinger on -Orwell s Socialism-; and Philip Bounds on -Orwell and the Anti-Austerity Left in Britain-
Marina Remy on the -Writing of Otherness in Burmese Days and Keep the Aspidistra Flying-; Sreya Mallika Datta and Utsa Mukherjee on -Reassessing Ambivalence in Orwell s Burma-; and Shu-chu Wei on Orwell s Animal Farm alongside Chen Jo-his s Mayor Yin
Tim Crook on -Orwell and the Radio Imagination-; and editor Richard Lance Keeble on -Orwell and the War Reporter s Imagination-
Peter Stansky, in an afterword, argues that Orwell is now more relevant than ever before."

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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.

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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.