The Cambridge Companion to Nineteen Eighty-Four Paperback / softback
Edited by Nathan (University of Birmingham) Waddell
Part of the Cambridge Companions to Literature series
Paperback / softback
Description
George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) remains a book of the moment.
This Companion builds on successive waves of generational inheritance and debate in the novel's reception by asking new questions about how and why Nineteen Eighty-Four was written, what it means, and why it matters.
Chapters on a selection of the novel's interpretative contexts, the literary histories from which it is inseparable, the urgent questions it raises, and the impact it has had on other kinds of media, ranging from radio to video games, open up the conversation in an expansive way.
Established concerns (e.g. Orwell's attitude to the working class, his anxieties about the socio-political compartmentalization of the post-war world) are presented alongside newer ones (e.g. his views on evil, and the influence of Nineteen Eighty-Four on comics).
Individual essays help us see in new ways how Orwell's most famous work continues to be a novel for our times.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:280 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:01/10/2020
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- ISBN:9781108814713
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:280 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:01/10/2020
- Category:
- ISBN:9781108814713
