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Orwell: Life and Art

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This remarkable volume collects, for the first time, essays representing more than four decades of scholarship by one of the world's leading authorities on George Orwell. In clear, energetic prose that exemplifies his indefatigable attention to Orwell's life work, Jeffrey Meyers analyzes the works and reception of one of the most widely read and admired twentieth-century authors.   Orwell: Life and Art covers the novelist's painful childhood and presents accounts of his autobiographical writings from the beginning of his career through the Spanish Civil War. Meyers continues with analyses of Orwell's major works, including Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, as well as his style, distinctive satiric humor, and approach to the art of writing. Meyers ends with a scrupulous examination of six biographies of Orwell, including his own, that embodies a consummate grasp and mastery of both the art of biography and Orwell's life and legacy.   Writing with an authority born of decades of focused scholarship, visits to Orwell's homes and workplaces, and interviews with his survivors, Meyers sculpts a dynamic view of Orwell's enduring influence on literature, art, culture, and politics.

Table of Contents:
CoverTitle PageCopyrightContentsIntroductionI: THE LIFE1. Orwell's Painful Childhood2. Orwell's Burma3. The Ethics of Responsibility: Burmese Days4. Orwell: The Honorary Proletarian5. Orwell and the Experience of France6. "An Affirming Flame": Homage to Catalonia7. Repeating the Old LiesII: THE ART8. Orwell's Apocalypse: Coming Up for Air9. Orwell as Film Critic10. The Reluctant Propagandist11. The Wind in the Willows: A New Source for Animal Farm12. Orwell's Bestiary: The Political Allegory of Animal Farm13. The Evolution of Nineteen Eighty-Four14. Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel of the 1930s15. Miseries and Splendors of Scholarship16. The Complete Works of George Orwell17. Orwell: A Voice That Naked Goes18. Orwell and the Art of Writing19. Orwell's Satiric HumorIII: ORWELL AFTER ORWELL20. Reviewing the Orwellians21. True to Life: Writing Orwell's BiographyEpilogueNotesSources and Jeffrey Meyers: Other Works on OrwellIndex

About the Author :
Jeffrey Meyers has written extensively on literature, film, and art. He is the author of forty-eight books, including The Genius and the Goddess: Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe and biographies of Katherine Mansfield, Joseph Conrad, Ernest Hemingway, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Meyers is one of twelve Americans who are Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature. In 2005 he received an Award in Literature "to honor exceptional achievement" from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in Berkeley, California.

Review :
"This path-breaking study encompasses Jeffery Meyers' stunning achievement in Orwell scholarship across four decades. Orwell: Life and Art is both a compelling work of literary criticism and a sophisticated psychological meditation on Orwell's embattled creative life. Best of all, Meyers' direct, hard-hitting prose eschews academic Newspeak and is 'Orwelllike'--not at all 'Orwellian'--in the style and spirit of Orwell's own plainspoken language and bracing common sense." John Rodden, author of George Orwell: The Politics of Literary Reputation


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780252035616
  • Publisher: University of Illinois Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Illinois Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 272
  • Sub Title: Life and Art
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0252035615
  • Publisher Date: 07 Oct 2010
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 25 mm
  • Weight: 567 gr


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