scholarly journals O GÓTICO, O SUBLIME E A DISTOPIA: UMA LEITURA DE 1984

Abusões ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
João Pedro Bellas
Keyword(s):  
George Orwell ◽  
Ann Radcliffe ◽  
Matthew Lewis

Este trabalho tem como principal objetivo refletir sobre uma possível aproximação entre o gótico e a distopia a partir de um estudo do romance 1984, de George Orwell. Apesar das diversas dificuldades existentes em qualquer tentativa de definição de ambos como gêneros discursivos, pretendo delimitar algumas características formais recorrentes tanto em narrativas góticas como naquelas tomadas como distópicas. Com isso em vista, buscarei explorar mais profundamente um elemento específico, a saber, o sublime. No Gótico setecentista, esse conceito estético foi amplamente mobilizado por autores como Matthew Lewis e, principalmente, Ann Radcliffe, tanto como um elemento formal para a construção do enredo – especialmente em descrições do espaço narrativo – quanto como um efeito de recepção que se buscava suscitar no leitor. Portanto, pretendo verificar se o sublime é um elemento constitutivo de 1984 para, a partir dele, analisar se é possível descrever o romance de Orwell como uma obra de influxos góticos.

Spectres of Antiquity

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Uden
Keyword(s):  
Ann Radcliffe ◽  
Gothic Literature ◽  
Horace Walpole ◽  
Matthew Lewis ◽  
Roman Culture ◽  
Gothic Novels ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Vision ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Of Greece

Gothic literature imagines the return of ghosts from the past. What about the classical past? Spectres of Antiquity is the first full-length study describing the relationship between Greek and Roman culture and the Gothic novels, poetry, and drama of the eighteenth and early-nineteenth century. Rather than simply representing the opposite of classical aesthetics and ideas, the Gothic emerged from an awareness of the lingering power of antiquity, and it irreverently fractures and deconstructs classical images and ideas. The Gothic also reflects a new vision of the ancient world: no longer inspiring modernity through its examples, antiquity has become a ghost, haunting and oppressing contemporary minds rather than guiding them. Through readings of canonical works by authors including Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe, Matthew Lewis, and Mary Shelley, Spectres of Antiquity argues that these authors’ ghostly plots and ideas preserve the remembered traces of Greece and Rome. In comprehensive detail, Spectres of Antiquity rewrites the history of the Gothic, demonstrating that the genre was haunted by a far deeper sense of history than readers had previously assumed.

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.

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