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Orwell

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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. | Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Introduction I: THE LIFE 1. Orwell's Painful Childhood 2. Orwell's Burma 3. The Ethics of Responsibility: Burmese Days 4. Orwell: The Honorary Proletarian 5. Orwell and the Experience of France 6. "An Affirming Flame": Homage to Catalonia 7. Repeating the Old Lies II: THE ART 8. Orwell's Apocalypse: Coming Up for Air 9. Orwell as Film Critic 10. The Reluctant Propagandist 11. The Wind in the Willows: A New Source for Animal Farm 12. Orwell's Bestiary: The Political Allegory of Animal Farm 13. The Evolution of Nineteen Eighty-Four 14. Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel of the 1930s 15. Miseries and Splendors of Scholarship 16. The Complete Works of George Orwell 17. Orwell: A Voice That Naked Goes 18. Orwell and the Art of Writing 19. Orwell's Satiric Humor III: ORWELL AFTER ORWELL 20. Reviewing the Orwellians 21. True to Life: Writing Orwell's Biography Epilogue Notes Sources and Jeffrey Meyers: Other Works on Orwell Index | "Highly recommended."—Choice
"This pathbreaking study encompasses Jeffrey 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 'Orwell-like'—not at all 'Orwellian'—in the style and spirit of Orwell's own plain-spoken language and bracing common sense."—John Rodden, author of George Orwell: The Politics of Literary Reputation and Every Intellectual's Big Brother: George Orwell's Literary Siblings
|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.
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Publisher: University of Illinois Press

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  • ISBN: 9780252090226
  • Release date: October 24, 2013

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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. | Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Introduction I: THE LIFE 1. Orwell's Painful Childhood 2. Orwell's Burma 3. The Ethics of Responsibility: Burmese Days 4. Orwell: The Honorary Proletarian 5. Orwell and the Experience of France 6. "An Affirming Flame": Homage to Catalonia 7. Repeating the Old Lies II: THE ART 8. Orwell's Apocalypse: Coming Up for Air 9. Orwell as Film Critic 10. The Reluctant Propagandist 11. The Wind in the Willows: A New Source for Animal Farm 12. Orwell's Bestiary: The Political Allegory of Animal Farm 13. The Evolution of Nineteen Eighty-Four 14. Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel of the 1930s 15. Miseries and Splendors of Scholarship 16. The Complete Works of George Orwell 17. Orwell: A Voice That Naked Goes 18. Orwell and the Art of Writing 19. Orwell's Satiric Humor III: ORWELL AFTER ORWELL 20. Reviewing the Orwellians 21. True to Life: Writing Orwell's Biography Epilogue Notes Sources and Jeffrey Meyers: Other Works on Orwell Index | "Highly recommended."—Choice
"This pathbreaking study encompasses Jeffrey 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 'Orwell-like'—not at all 'Orwellian'—in the style and spirit of Orwell's own plain-spoken language and bracing common sense."—John Rodden, author of George Orwell: The Politics of Literary Reputation and Every Intellectual's Big Brother: George Orwell's Literary Siblings
|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.
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Literary Criticism Nonfiction
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