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John Rodden

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Description:Lionel Trilling memorialized him as "a virtuous man." To Arthur Koestler his life was "a rebel's progress." Irving Howe called him "my intellectual hero"; and V.S. Pritchett eulogized him as a "saint" and the "conscience of his generation." Since his death in 1950, George Orwell hasserved as a personal and intellectual model for countless writers across the political spectrum, ranging from the New Left to the New York intellectuals to the National Review conservatives. His last two books, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, have sold forty million copies in sixty-fivelanguages, more than any other pair of books by a single author in history. How did this enormous reputation develop? And what can Orwell's reputation tell us about reputation-building in general? As the first systematic exploration of reputation as a literary and sociological issue, The Politics of Literary Reputation addresses these questions. In the process of telling the story of how Orwell's reputation was made and maintained, John Rodden breaks new ground on a host of topicsconnected with the phenomenon of fame (literary heroism, intellectual role-modeling, political grave-robbing, literary canon-formation). Through this fascinating account of the posthumous history of the best-selling political writer of the century, Rodden has, in a sense, invented a new way ofwriting the traditional "Life and Times" telling the story of a person's "afterlife." Using the vicissitudes of Orwell's reputation as a giant lens through which to behold a history of the events he has influenced, Rodden achieves nothing less than a kaleidoscopic biography of the postwar West. He discusses how the recent Soviet publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four unveils someof the paradoxes of perestroika; how the first BBC-TV adaptation of Nineteen Eighty-Four in 1954 signaled the changing conditions of reputation-building in the media age; how Orwell's exclusion from the "high canon" of modern British literature reflects the longstanding bias of modernism and theliterary academy against the realistic novel; and how the criticism of the New York Intellectuals (Lionel Trilling, Irving Howe, Norman Podhoretz) actually forms more of a portrait of their ideal self-images than of George Orwell himself. Rodden focuses not only on Orwell's work but also on his"saintly life," analyzing the impassioned responses of his admirers and enemies, including socialists, liberals, Marxists, feminists, anarchists, conservatives, neo-conservatives, Zionists, and Catholics. No reader will emerge from this rigorous journey through the world of Orwell without having his or her own intellectual commitments challenged.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Politics of Literary Reputation: The Making and Claiming of S. To get started finding The Politics of Literary Reputation: The Making and Claiming of S, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Lionel Trilling memorialized him as "a virtuous man." To Arthur Koestler his life was "a rebel's progress." Irving Howe called him "my intellectual hero"; and V.S. Pritchett eulogized him as a "saint" and the "conscience of his generation." Since his death in 1950, George Orwell hasserved as a personal and intellectual model for countless writers across the political spectrum, ranging from the New Left to the New York intellectuals to the National Review conservatives. His last two books, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, have sold forty million copies in sixty-fivelanguages, more than any other pair of books by a single author in history. How did this enormous reputation develop? And what can Orwell's reputation tell us about reputation-building in general? As the first systematic exploration of reputation as a literary and sociological issue, The Politics of Literary Reputation addresses these questions. In the process of telling the story of how Orwell's reputation was made and maintained, John Rodden breaks new ground on a host of topicsconnected with the phenomenon of fame (literary heroism, intellectual role-modeling, political grave-robbing, literary canon-formation). Through this fascinating account of the posthumous history of the best-selling political writer of the century, Rodden has, in a sense, invented a new way ofwriting the traditional "Life and Times" telling the story of a person's "afterlife." Using the vicissitudes of Orwell's reputation as a giant lens through which to behold a history of the events he has influenced, Rodden achieves nothing less than a kaleidoscopic biography of the postwar West. He discusses how the recent Soviet publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four unveils someof the paradoxes of perestroika; how the first BBC-TV adaptation of Nineteen Eighty-Four in 1954 signaled the changing conditions of reputation-building in the media age; how Orwell's exclusion from the "high canon" of modern British literature reflects the longstanding bias of modernism and theliterary academy against the realistic novel; and how the criticism of the New York Intellectuals (Lionel Trilling, Irving Howe, Norman Podhoretz) actually forms more of a portrait of their ideal self-images than of George Orwell himself. Rodden focuses not only on Orwell's work but also on his"saintly life," analyzing the impassioned responses of his admirers and enemies, including socialists, liberals, Marxists, feminists, anarchists, conservatives, neo-conservatives, Zionists, and Catholics. No reader will emerge from this rigorous journey through the world of Orwell without having his or her own intellectual commitments challenged.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Politics of Literary Reputation: The Making and Claiming of S. To get started finding The Politics of Literary Reputation: The Making and Claiming of S, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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