1948
Described as the most widely read and influential serious writer of the twentieth century, George Orwell remains relevant in our own era of contested media. He continues to attract a large readership. This book is about Orwell’s post-war cultural moment c. 1948. Taking his Diaries of the time as...
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2023
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| description | Described as the most widely read and influential serious writer of the twentieth century, George Orwell remains relevant in our own era of contested media. He continues to attract a large readership.
This book is about Orwell’s post-war cultural moment c. 1948. Taking his Diaries of the time as inspiration, together with his famous final novel, 1984 (published 1949), and treating them as contiguous texts, Brian May considers the gaps, equivocations, and contradictions in Orwell's message and asks what Orwell would have written next.
But 1948 is more than a work of literary criticism: rather, it balances critical discussion with creative intervention, being one-half literary-critical commentary, and one-half fictional departure – a novella titled “From the Archives of Oceania,” which quotes, parodies and pastiches Orwell's Diaries, offering a possible prequel. Together these elements offer a resource for the reader to interrogate anew such difficult issues as Orwell's sexism and anti-Semitism; to explore the tensions between various intertwining strands of thought that cast Orwell as both realist and idealist, Puritan and individualist; and to better understand Orwell's curious affection for the natural world.
1948 will appeal to all readers and critics of Orwell, but also to students of dystopian fiction, "revisionary" fiction and "reception study," which highlights the audience’s contribution to an artwork's meaning. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1226772025-03-20T21:26:19Z 1948 May, Brian Orwellian;Literary prequels;novellas;fan fiction;dystopian fiction;Orwell and modernism;the counter-enlightenment and Orwell;anti-semitism in English literature;the Blitz in English literature;Corryvreckan and Orwell;Orwell and Jura;Orwell and anti-semitism;Orwell and women;Orwell World War 2;doublethink;Orwell and environmentalism Described as the most widely read and influential serious writer of the twentieth century, George Orwell remains relevant in our own era of contested media. He continues to attract a large readership. This book is about Orwell’s post-war cultural moment c. 1948. Taking his Diaries of the time as inspiration, together with his famous final novel, 1984 (published 1949), and treating them as contiguous texts, Brian May considers the gaps, equivocations, and contradictions in Orwell's message and asks what Orwell would have written next. But 1948 is more than a work of literary criticism: rather, it balances critical discussion with creative intervention, being one-half literary-critical commentary, and one-half fictional departure – a novella titled “From the Archives of Oceania,” which quotes, parodies and pastiches Orwell's Diaries, offering a possible prequel. Together these elements offer a resource for the reader to interrogate anew such difficult issues as Orwell's sexism and anti-Semitism; to explore the tensions between various intertwining strands of thought that cast Orwell as both realist and idealist, Puritan and individualist; and to better understand Orwell's curious affection for the natural world. 1948 will appeal to all readers and critics of Orwell, but also to students of dystopian fiction, "revisionary" fiction and "reception study," which highlights the audience’s contribution to an artwork's meaning. 2023-11-21T04:19:20Z 2023-11-21T04:19:20Z 2023-11-20T13:27:25Z 2024 book OCN: 1410495408 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/85258 9781804131305 9781804131299 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/122677 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/85258/1/9781804131312.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/85258/8/9781804131312.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/85258/8/9781804131312.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/85258/8/9781804131312.pdf University of Exeter Press 10.47788/EKND5658 10.47788/EKND5658 1417d5ed-2c7f-456e-84f4-e75128a86747 9781804131305 9781804131299 196 Exeter open access |
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