...Robert Colls Or Orwell. Writing and Democratic Socialism . By Woloch Alex . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 2016 . 432 p. Copyright © 2017 University of Oregon 2017 COMPARATIVE LITERATURE / 460 Or Orwell. Writing and Democratic Socialism. By Alex Woloch. Cambridge...

... Literature.” Debating World Literature . Ed. Prendergast Christopher . Cambridge : Cambridge UP , 2004 . 148 – 62 . Print . Orwell George . “Inside the Whale.” 1940 . Complete Works . Vol. 12 . London : Secker and Warburg , 1998 . 86 – 115 . Print . ———. Letter to Sergei...

... by George Orwell in his widely read essay “Politics and the English Language,” although the Marx/Engels text lacks Orwell’s linguistic nationalism and cultural conservatism. That said, Engel’s scorn in the passage I have just quoted seems petty — fussy, even — at times. It is not that Engels’s...

....” South Atlantic Quarterly 100 : 3 ( 2001 ): 603 – 26 . Print . Orwell George . Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays . London : Secker and Warburg , 1950 . Print . Peek Michelle . “Humanitarian Narrative and Posthumanist Critique: Dave Eggers's ‘What Is the What...

... in that. Tomorrow wasn’t get- ting ready for them. It didn’t even know they were there” (142). Although The Road is often discussed as a dystopia, it is in fact quite di erent from a classic dystopia such as George Orwell’s 1984. The di erence starts with the title: 1984 is a date in the future (the novel...

...”). We see this trend in the resurfacing of classic dystopias such as George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 , both of which became best sellers in the United States after the election of Donald Trump. In addition to these North American texts, there are also recently...

... to recall Orwell’s dystopia. In Swift’s satire, this is not the case: Gulliver has as much con- trol over his narrative as does the shipwrecked sailor in Robinson Crusoe, the only difference being that whereas Defoe has his narrator (re-)create a mimetic illu- sionistic world in the form of a travel...

..., “is exaggerated and bears the traces of a mod- ernist propensity toward artistic disengagement” (7). This anti-religious bias is also typifi ed by George Orwell, who found Chesterton to be “a writer of considerable talent who chose to suppress his sensibilities and his intellectual honesty in the cause...

... can George Orwell’s 1984 be set in Oceania and Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale be set in the Republic of Gilead, both imaginary rather than fictive settings. The rules governing the imaginary world are different from those in the reader’s world, even if the point is that the difference...

... fictions: Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward (1888), Alexander Bogdanov’s Red Star (1908), Jack London’s The Iron Heel (1908), Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We (1920), George Orwell’s 1984 (1949), and Ursula K. LeGuin’s The Dispossessed (1974). Wegner shows himself to be a gifted close reader, crisply attentive...

... fictions: Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward (1888), Alexander Bogdanov’s Red Star (1908), Jack London’s The Iron Heel (1908), Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We (1920), George Orwell’s 1984 (1949), and Ursula K. LeGuin’s The Dispossessed (1974). Wegner shows himself to be a gifted close reader, crisply attentive...

... fictions: Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward (1888), Alexander Bogdanov’s Red Star (1908), Jack London’s The Iron Heel (1908), Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We (1920), George Orwell’s 1984 (1949), and Ursula K. LeGuin’s The Dispossessed (1974). Wegner shows himself to be a gifted close reader, crisply attentive...

... fictions: Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward (1888), Alexander Bogdanov’s Red Star (1908), Jack London’s The Iron Heel (1908), Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We (1920), George Orwell’s 1984 (1949), and Ursula K. LeGuin’s The Dispossessed (1974). Wegner shows himself to be a gifted close reader, crisply attentive...

... fictions: Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward (1888), Alexander Bogdanov’s Red Star (1908), Jack London’s The Iron Heel (1908), Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We (1920), George Orwell’s 1984 (1949), and Ursula K. LeGuin’s The Dispossessed (1974). Wegner shows himself to be a gifted close reader, crisply attentive...

... [McCarthy] would say, all shouting at once. Only the names had changed with the times, which now favored English intellectuals over French, and men and women of fashion—Cecil Beaton, Laurence Olivier, Stephen Spender, Sonia Orwell (whose marriage to Michael Pitt-Rivers ended a few months after...