Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 199 pages). |
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Series |
Studies in major literary authors ; v. 32
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Studies in major literary authors ; v. 32.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-191) and index. |
Contents |
Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; On Decency, Doubleness, and Updating Orwell; Hardly Above Suspicion: Hypocrisy, Decency, and Sincerity in Burmese Days; The Secret Art of Not Making Good: Gordon Comstock's Childish Narrowness in Keep the Aspidistra Flying; An Absence of Pampering: The Betrayal of the Rebellion and the End of Decency in Animal Farm; The Heresy of Common Sense: The Prohibition of Decency in Nineteen Eighty-Four; Conclusion: Decency or Tolerance?; Notes; Bibliography; Index. |
Summary |
In its analysis of Animal Farm, Burmese Days, Keep the Aspidistra Flying and Nineteen Eighty-Four, this book argues that George Orwell's fiction and non-fiction weigh the benefits and costs of a doubled perspective. |
Local Note |
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Subject |
Orwell, George, 1903-1950 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Orwell, George, 1903-1950. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Orwell, George, 1903-1950 -- Knowledge and learning -- Psychology.
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Psychology. |
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Orwell, George, 1903-1950 -- Ethics.
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Ethics. |
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Difference (Psychology) in literature.
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Difference (Psychology) in literature. |
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Conduct of life in literature.
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Conduct of life in literature. |
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Ethics in literature.
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Ethics in literature. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Stewart, Anthony, 1964- George Orwell, doubleness, and the value of decency. New York : Routledge, 2003 (DLC) 2003005295 |
ISBN |
0203489527 (electronic book) |
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9780203489529 (electronic book) |
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0415968712 (Cloth) |
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