George Orwell and Arthur Koestler

2013 ◽  
pp. 110-152
Author(s):  
James Smith
Keyword(s):  
George Orwell ◽  
Arthur Koestler

Introduction

Red Britain ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Matthew Taunton
Keyword(s):  
Russian Revolution ◽  
George Orwell ◽  
Central Importance ◽  
Catastrophic Event ◽  
Bolshevik Revolution ◽  
Arthur Koestler ◽  
Political Relations ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
British Culture

The introduction argues that the Russian Revolution should be understood as a fundamentally important precondition for mid-century British culture. It explains the range of intellectuals covered in the book, and the central importance of anti-Communists Arthur Koestler and George Orwell for its argument. It then outlines three key arguments that run through the book: first, that the effects of the Russian Revolution on British culture are best understood in terms of gradual sedimentation in a longue durée rather than as a catastrophic event; second, Red Britain emphasizes the ideological diversity on either side of the Cold War divide; third, that British responses to the Bolshevik Revolution should be understood not only as a clash of internationalist or cosmopolitan ideologies, but also as an episode within a longer history of nationally grounded Anglo-Russian cultural and political relations. The introduction ends with brief summaries of the book’s five chapters.

scholarly journals El individuo y los sistemas políticos a través de tres novelas de Joseph Conrad

2006 ◽  
Vol 3 (6) ◽  
pp. 51
Author(s):  
Dorothy Stark de Valverde
Keyword(s):  
Joseph Conrad ◽  
George Orwell ◽  
Graham Greene ◽  
Arthur Koestler ◽  
El Sistema

Resulta difícil definir en español el concepto de "novela política" que los críticos en literatura inglesa tan frecuentemente utilizan para describir cierto género, en que el sistema gubernativo puede ser escenario o catalizador de las acciones de los protagonistas.La novela política contemporánea, como la de Graham Greene, Arthur Koestler o George Orwell. es la resultante de un fenómeno que iniciaron Dostoievski y Corad, con su concepción del mundo político. En este análisis de las novelasde Conrad,enfatizó tres puntos fundamentales: a) la filosofía del autor acerca de los gobiernos, b) su filosofía del hombre, como ser solitario dentro de las estructuras político-sociales y c) la necesidad de principios morales tanto en el gobierno como en el ciudadano.

Basic English

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
James McElvenny
Keyword(s):  
George Orwell ◽  
Jeremy Bentham ◽  
International Language ◽  
Basic English

This chapter explores C. K. Ogden’s project Basic English against the background of the contemporary international language movement. An exposition of the international language movement, its political and philosophical commitments, is followed by an examination of the features of Ogden’s Basic and the rhetoric surrounding it. The connections between the theories developed in The Meaning of Meaning and Basic English are looked at in detail. The chapter closes with a discussion of the influence of Jeremy Bentham and his Panopticon on Basic, and of the reaction of George Orwell to the project, as revealed in his published writings and correspondence with Ogden, and in Newspeak, his parody of constructed languages.

Orwell's ‘Barbarous’ Patriotism

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 372-389
Author(s):  
John Glassford
Keyword(s):  
George Orwell ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Attentive Reader ◽  
Default Position

It is not always clear what the well-spring of patriotic feeling might be, and ‘patriots’ often have difficulty articulating the origins of their passion, though sources are seldom mysterious. In this article, it is suggested that George Orwell was one such example. With the Lacanian proposition that the unconscious is structured like a language as a default position, it is evident that Orwell's texts on nationalism, patriotism, and education clearly exhibit confusion. More specifically, it is when Orwell tries to disentangle ‘Englishness’ from ‘Scottishness’ that we see that despite his apparent sophistication as a journalist and propagandist, his account of Englishness is little more than patriarchal, nationalist chauvinism of the kind he claimed to despise. The attentive reader can see it in his texts, but he was blind to the contradiction.

CARNAVALIZAR É PRECISO: UMA LEITURA DA PARÓDIA EM QUEM ME DERA SER ONDA

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Teresa Salgado
Keyword(s):  
George Orwell

Enfoque da novela Quem me dera ser onda, uma das mais conhecidas obras do escritor Manuel Rui e tambémda literatura angolana, a partir do diálogo que a obra sugere com A revolução dos bichos, um dos maispopulares clássicos do escritor inglês George Orwell. O conceito de carnavalização bakht iniana assim como ode paródia e de realismo grotesco são considerados instrumentos úteis para se pensar as condições culturaisda sociedade angolana na pós-independência.PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Quem me dera ser onda, A revolução dos bichos, carnavalização, paródia,realismo grotesco

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