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George Orwell: An Evaluation of His Early Fiction
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George Orwell and Raymond Williams : a comparison of their thoughts on politics, letters and language
… study is to explore the relationship between George Orwell and Raymond Williams as reflected in their respective writings on politics, letters and language. The study aims to provide a close historical reading of exemplary texts written by Orwell and Williams. This involves: description of the …
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Repression and reduction: the apparatchik's discourse in the works of Ammianus Marcellinus, Denis Diderot, Victor Serge and George Orwell
… Essai sur les règnes de Claude et de Néron, and George Orwell’s Burmese Days, Homage to Catalonia, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four. Despite the differences in time and culture, a thread runs through their works that reveals a continuous form in this discourse in political activity and, more …
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The Dystopian Impulse and Media Consumption: Redefining Utopia Via the Narrative Economics of the New Media Age
… <em>White Noise</em> in situating the visions of George Orwell and Aldous Huxley within the context of the new media age. In <em>Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business</em> Neil Postman draws a dichotomy between the prophecies of George Orwell and Aldous Huxley. …
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The Sun Also Sets: British Authors and the Death of the Empire
… British women into India in A Passage to India; George Orwell demonstrates the significance of burgeoning native dissent and the empowerment of the compradore class in Burma in Burmese Days; Anthony Burgess offers an exhaustive fictional meditation of the zenith of native resistance in Malaysia …
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"The Architecture of Anti-Utopias: Critiques of Modern Public Housing from London to Orwell"
… London, Robert Hugh Benson, Aldous Huxley, and George Orwell adopt anti-utopian perspectives to show the inherent flaws of supposed utopian belief systems. Building off of Gregory Claeys and Lyman Sargent’s definition of the anti-utopian genre, I attest that London, Benson, Huxley and Orwell in …
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Orwell's Unmediated Hand: The Compositional Stages of Nineteen Eighty-Four
… precious resources available for analysis of Orwell’s creative process – the surviving, but fragmented, stages of early composition. In order to understand the full significance of these pages, it is necessary to illuminate the presubmission history of Nineteen Eighty-Four from the point at …
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Post-war British working-class fiction with special reference to the novels of John Braine, Alan Sillitoe, Stan Barstow, David Storey and Barry Hines
… covers various authors such as Robert Tressell, George Orwell, Walter Greenwood, Lewis Grassic Gibbon and DH Lawrence from the early twentieth century; writers traditionally classified as 'Angry Young Men' like John Osborne, Arnold Wesker, Shelagh Delaney, John Wain and Kingsley Amis; and …
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Effects of learning logs on high school literature achievement
… later, Group B kept a learning log on 1984 by George Orwell and Group A did not. Again, a follow-up test was given to both groups. Statistical analysis indicated that the learning log did make a difference in students' exam scores. At the end of the year, another exam on these novels was given …
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No More Heroes? The Representation of the English Working Class in the Booker Prize Shortlists
… that have changed little since noted by George Orwell. These findings show a decline in the positive representation of the modern English working class and an increase in a reductive metanarrative. They contribute an original perspective on the influence of the Booker Prize and add to the …
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Censoring allegorical texts: interpreting Orwell and Miller
… texts. The allegorical texts Animal Farm by George Orwell and The Crucible by Arthur Miller are analysed with a view to understanding whether censors of allegory are correct to assume that their own interpretations are replicable for other readers, and censor accordingly. Beginning with an …
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The expression of George Orwell’s racial and social attitudes
… racial attitudes in the development and work of George Orwell. He grew up in an environment where race and class roles were firmly and hierarchically established. His early training reinforced these orthodoxies, and Burmese Days as well as other writing shows he understood the unity and necessity …
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An investigation into the design, production and display contexts of industrial safety posters produced by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents during WW2 and a catalogue of posters
… is evidence of the social change identified by George Orwell as a necessary condition of victory. Furthermore, the presence of this material, within an English context, counters the prevailing orthodoxy of an English resistance to Modernism. The thesis describes the administrative and technical …
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'Scarecrows of Chivalry': The Literature of Post -Imperial English Masculinity
… Thomas Hughes, E. M. Forster, Evelyn Waugh, and George Orwell. With its emphasis on the longue duree of the Victorian gentleman, the project stresses the post-imperial break-up of conventional languages and forms of masculinity after 1945, expanding the standard analytic frames of reference such …
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The skin of a writer
… Parlour by Somerset Maugham and Burmese Days by George Orwell. I focus on the way skin is represented, drawing from Didier Anzieu’s ‘skin ego’, Imogen Tyler’s intervention in Anzieu’s thinking, as well as Steven Connor’s analysis of cultural reception of the skin to argue that certain forms of …
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Future tense : an analysis of science fiction as secular apocalyptic literature
… world, using the works of Aldous Huxley and George Orwell. 3. Apocalypses of Destruction and Redemption. The nineteen fifties to the present; the crisis of nuclear power and thinking machines, using the works of Frank Herbert and Isaac Asimov. Also examined are the quasi-religious nature of …
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Among the Modernist Ruins: British Writing and the Architecture of the State
… of their 1938 public exhibition, an aging George Bernard Shaw stepped in. Yet this body of architectural criticism has largely been erased from our understanding of both these authors' careers and modern writing more generally; indeed, critics such as Victoria Rosner have briskly dismissed …
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The Cold War, the New World Order, and the War on Terror : U.S. presidents' use of Orwell's big brother myth
… about the fear totalitarianism. Born out of George Orwell's novel 1984, the Big Brother myth is articulated by presenting a totalitarian foe, creating an us vs. them scenario, and depicting a dystopian world into the near distant future. This study examined U.S. Presidents' Inaugural and …
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After Orwell: Totalitarian Fears and the English Political Novel, 1950-2010
<p>After Orwell: Totalitarian Fears and the English Political Novel, 1950-2010 gives a coherent account of the English political novel after World War II, a critical narrative absent from current scholarship. I contend that George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), a touchstone for political …
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