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Автор: Peter Stansky
Название: Socialist Patriot: George Orwell and War
ISBN: 9781503635494
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Биографии деятелей литературы

Литературоведение: с 1900 г.

Литературоведение: художественная литература, романисты и прозаики

ISBN-10: 150363549X
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 150
Вес: 0.18 кг.
Дата издания: 17.01.2023
Язык: English
Издание: New ed
Размер: 126 x 204 x 12
Ключевые слова: Biography: literary, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures,HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General,LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Historical Events
Подзаголовок: George orwell and war
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An incisive demonstration of how Orwells body of work was defined by the four major conflicts that punctuated his life: World War I, the Spanish Civil War, World War II, and the Cold War.

Few English writers wielded a pen so sharply as George Orwell, the quintessential political writer of the twentieth century. His literary output at once responded to and sought to influence the tumultuous times in which he lived—decades during which Europe and eventually the entire world would be torn apart by war, while ideologies like fascism, socialism, and communism changed the stakes of global politics. In this study, Stanford historian and lifelong Orwell scholar Peter Stansky incisively demonstrates how Orwells body of work was defined by the four major conflicts that punctuated his life: World War I, the Spanish Civil War, World War II, and the Cold War.

Young Orwell came of age against the backdrop of the First World War, and published his final book, Nineteen Eighty-Four, nearly half a century later, at the outset of the Cold War. The intervening three decades of Orwells life were marked by radical shifts in his personal politics: briefly a staunch pacifist, he was finally a fully committed socialist following his involvement in the Spanish Civil War. But just before the outbreak of World War II, he had adopted a strong anti-pacifist position, stating that to be a pacifist was equivalent to being pro-Fascist.

By carefully combing through Orwells published works, notably My Country Right or Left, The Lion and the Unicorn, Animal Farm, and his most dystopian and prescient novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, Stansky teases apart Orwells often paradoxical views on patriotism and socialism. The Socialist Patriot is ultimately an attempt to reconcile the apparent contradictions between Orwells commitment to socialist ideals and his sharp critique of totalitarianism by demonstrating the centrality of his wartime experiences, giving twenty-first century readers greater insight into the inner world of one of the most influential writers of the modern age.

Дополнительное описание: 0. Preface: Writing about George Orwell: An Autobiographical Introduction
1. Before the First World War
2. The First World War
3. The Spanish Civil War
4. The Second World War
5. The Cold War

Socialist Patriot: George Orwell and War, Peter Stansky