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Censoring allegorical texts: interpreting Orwell and Miller
… 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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George Orwell: An Evaluation of His Early Fiction
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Newspeak and new media: contemporary Orwell in interactive environments
… seventy 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. …
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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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"The Architecture of Anti-Utopias: Critiques of Modern Public Housing from London to Orwell"
… 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 their …
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George Orwell and Raymond Williams : a comparison of their thoughts on politics, letters and language
… 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
… 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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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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Perceived Effect of Obesity in Rural Vs. Urban Areas
… of obesity on quality of life (QOL) using the ORWELL 97 questionnaire, which measured pychosocial (discomfort and impact) and physical (physical discomfort) distress. Data were collected during Spring and Summer semesters (2006) from physical activity classes and student organizations. A total …
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The expression of George Orwell’s racial and social attitudes
… 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 of …
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The Dystopian Impulse and Media Consumption: Redefining Utopia Via the Narrative Economics of the New Media Age
… 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. He …
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Ecologia come paradigma di resistenza. Il paesaggio minerario di Sardegna: Environmental criticism in aree industriali dismesse
… critically engaging with works by Dickens, Zola, Orwell, and Angioni, the research elucidates how extractive practices mirror a broader system of socio-ecological injustice. It argues that extractivism should not be conceived solely as an economic phenomenon, but also as a manifestation of …
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The Sun Also Sets: British Authors and the Death of the Empire
… 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 in The …
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Exploring the New Front of the Culture War: <i>1984, Oryx and Crake,</i> and Cultural Hegemony
… that seek to exercise control on its citizens. Orwell’s classic 1984 depicts a society that is a reaction to World War II and totalitarian regimes. This society depicts elements of cultural hegemony that are altered during the move to postmodernism. Atwood’s Oryx and Crake evolved to reflect the …
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The Ethics of Collective Knowledge Production: The Individual and Club Membership in Victorian and Early Twentieth-Century Narrative
… service in interwar novels by Forster and Orwell, details the breakdown of this associational aesthetic.
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Las Tres Habanas de Abilio Estévez: La Representación del Espacio Urbano en su Literatura
… of the future, an apocalyptical city with 1984's Orwell reminiscences. Estevez's future Havana never survives its fatal fate: it will be consistently destroyed by floods or fires. Even in Tuyo es el reino ( Thine is the Kingdom) will the second Havana, the Havana of the past, of his childhood and …
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