The Orwell conundrum : a cry of despair or faith in the spirit of man? / Erika Gottlieb.
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TextPublisher: Ottawa : Carleton University Press, 1992Distributor: Don Mills, Ont. : Distributed by Oxford University Press CanadaDescription: 1 online resource (313 pages)Content type: - text
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- Orwell, George, 1903-1950. Nineteen eighty-four
- Orwell, George, 1903-1950 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Orwell, George, 1903-1950 Nineteen eighty-four
- Orwell, George, 1903-1950 -- Critique et interprétation
- Orwell, George, 1903-1950
- Nineteen eighty-four (Orwell, George)
- English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-308) and index.
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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- PART I: A CRY OF DESPAIR OR FAITH IN THE SPIRIT OF MAN? -- 1. The Orwell Conundrum -- 2. Orwell's Essays: The Birth of the Adversary -- 3. Orwell's Fiction: From Psychological Realism to Political Satire
4. Nineteen Eighty-Four: The Reconciliation of Political Allegory and Psychological Realism PART II: GOLDSTEIN'S BOOK: THE KEY TO THE DECODING OF THE SATIRE: THE SECULAR RELIGION OF TOTALITARIANISM -- 5. Time as Theme and Structure in Dystopian Satire
6. Proles, Intellectuals, and the Betrayal of Socialism: Orwell's Satirical Devices7. Doublethink -- 8. The Demonic World of Oceania: The Persecution of the 'Satanic' Opponent -- 9. The Demonic World of Oceania: The Mystical Adulation of the 'Sacred' Leader -- PART III: CONFRONTING THE DEMONIC IN TOTALITARIANISM: ORWELL AND CONTEMPORARIES
10. The Demonic Spiral: Psycho-Historical Interpretations 11. The Modern Morality Play of Everyman against the Demonic Forces of Totalitarianism: Thomas Mann, Camus, Sartre, and Orwell on the Theme of Betrayal -- 12. What Turns Utopia into Dystopia? The Terror of Science and the Science of Terror: Huxley and Orwell -- PART IV: ORWELL'S TRAGIC HUMANISM
13. The Spirit of Man: Orwell's Response to the 'Realism' of Marx, Freud, and the Existentialists 14. Orwell's Concept of the Tragic: The Synthesis of Nineteenth-Century Moral Idealism and Twentieth-Century Realism -- PART V: COMING THROUGH THE OTHER SIDE: THE METAMORPHOSIS OF TRAGIC IRONY INTO THE MILITANT WIT OF SATIRE: AN ULTIMATE FAITH IN THE SPIRIT OF MAN
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