George Orwell remains an iconic figure today - even though he died in 1950. His dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four depicts a Big Brother society in which the state intrudes into the most intimate details of people's lives - and, not surprisingly, it became a constant reference point after Edward Snowden's revelations. The word ???Orwellian??? is constantly in the media - used either as a pejorative adjective to evoke totalitarian terror or as a complimentary adjective to mean ???displaying outspoken intellectual honesty?? ...
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George Orwell remains an iconic figure today - even though he died in 1950. His dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four depicts a Big Brother society in which the state intrudes into the most intimate details of people's lives - and, not surprisingly, it became a constant reference point after Edward Snowden's revelations. The word ???Orwellian??? is constantly in the media - used either as a pejorative adjective to evoke totalitarian terror or as a complimentary adjective to mean ???displaying outspoken intellectual honesty???. Interest in Orwell's life and writings - globally - continues unabated. Beginning with a preface by Richard Blair, Orwell's son, George Orwell Now! brings together thirteen chapters by leading international scholars in four thematic sections: * Peter Marks on Orwell and the history of surveillance studies; Florian Zollmann on Nineteen Eighty-Four in 2014; Henk Vynckier on Orwell's collecting project; and Adam Stock on 'Big Brother's Literary Offspring' * Paul Anderson ???In Defence of Bernard Crick???; Luke Seaber on the ???London Section of Down and Out in Paris and London???; John Newsinger on ???Orwell's Socialism???; and Philip Bounds on ???Orwell and the Anti-Austerity Left in Britain??? * Marina Remy on the ???Writing of Otherness in Burmese Days and Keep the Aspidistra Flying???; Sreya Mallika Datta and Utsa Mukherjee on ???Reassessing Ambivalence in Orwell's Burma???; and Shu-chu Wei on Orwell's Animal Farm alongside Chen Jo-his's Mayor Yin * Tim Crook on ???Orwell and the Radio Imagination???; and editor Richard Lance Keeble on ???Orwell and the War Reporter's Imagination??? Peter Stansky, in an afterword, argues that Orwell is now more relevant than ever before.
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