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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Nineteen Eighty-Four"”.
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Orwell's Unmediated Hand: The Compositional Stages of Nineteen Eighty-Four
Nineteen Eighty-Four has become a hallmark example of the first, great cautionary sociological and political dystopias of the postwar era. Over the last sixty years, literary critics have thoroughly studied the plot, setting, characters, themes, scenes, subliminal meanings, and overt meanings of …
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Newspeak and new media: contemporary Orwell in interactive environments
… years after its publication, George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, a canonical work of twentieth-century British literature, preserves its relevance not only in relation to politics, but also in relation to its portrayal of the boundaries of the individual in an authoritarian state. Drawing on …
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"The Architecture of Anti-Utopias: Critiques of Modern Public Housing from London to Orwell"
… Huxley’s Brave New World (1932), and Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949).
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Evaluating the Proliferation and Pervasiveness of Leaking Sensitive Data in the Secure Shell Protocol and in Internet Protocol Camera Frameworks
In George Orwell’s `nineteen eighty-four: A novel', there is fear regarding what “Big Brother”, knows due to the fact that even thoughts could be “heard”. Though we are not quite to this point, it should concern us all in what data we are transferring, both intentionally and unintentionally, and …
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After Orwell: Totalitarian Fears and the English Political Novel, 1950-2010
… scholarship. I contend that George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), a touchstone for political fiction, is underwritten by Orwell's conflicted attitude toward politics: despite embracing politics as the necessary means to genuinely improve people's lives, he also remained suspicious of …
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Reimagining Subject-Other Relations: Embracing the other Without and Within
… paranoia” as represented in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, E.L. Doctorow’s The Book of Daniel, and Dione Brand’s Inventory (O’Donnell vii). While the literary and generic structures, aesthetic approaches, and historical contexts for the texts chosen are varied, they each trace 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
… the apparatchik’s discourse through the works of four authors, Victor Serge’s Ville Conquise, S’il est minuit dans le siècle, and L’affaire Toulaév, Ammianus Marcellinus’ Res Gestae, Denis Diderot’s Essai sur la vie de Sénèque and Essai sur les règnes de Claude et de Néron, and George Orwell’s …
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The future is Gothic: elements of Gothic in dystopian novels
… Huxley’s Brave New World (1932), George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), Anthony Burgess’ A Clockwork Orange (1962), Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale (1985) and Michel Houellebecq’s Atomised (1999). The key concerns are those of the Labyrinth, Dark Places, Connectedness and the Loss of …
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Dystopia: An Ecological History
… puts dystopian novels like George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), Kurt Vonnegut’s Player Piano (1952), Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 (1953), Harry Harrison’s Make Room! Make Room! (1966), John Brunner’s Stand on Zanzibar (1968), and Ursula Le Guin’s The Lathe of Heaven (1971) in …