1st Edition
The Unsung Artistry of George Orwell The Novels from Burmese Days to Nineteen Eighty-Four
By Loraine Saunders
Copyright 2008
172 Pages
by
Routledge
170 Pages
by
Routledge
170 Pages
by
Routledge
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In a timely and radically new reappraisal of George Orwell's fiction, Loraine Saunders reads Orwell's novels as tales of successful emancipation rather than as chronicles of failure. Contending that Orwell's novels have been undervalued as works of art, she offers extensive textual analysis to reveal an author who is in far more control of his prose than has been appreciated. Persuasively... Read more
Contents: Preface; Introduction; Orwell: the proletarian novelist; Aspects of Orwell's political aesthetic; Who is speaking? Orwell's narrative perspectives; The influence of George Gissing; Orwell's women: working against Gissing's models; Orwell's unique style; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Loraine Saunders is a lecturer at Liverpool Hope University.
'Disclosing the integral aesthetic components of the distinctive style that Orwell developed in his early realistic novels of the 1930s, Loraine Saunders hits just the right note in her literary analysis of Burmese Days, A Clergyman's Daughter, Keep the Aspidistra Flying and Coming Up for Air. In reminding us of the power, vitality, and optimism of these neglected writings in Orwell's oeuvre, Saunders provides an invaluable service: her study serves as a much-needed corrective to the established critical tendency to undervalue Orwell's novelistic artistry and instead helps us to appreciate his full achievement and artistic legacy'. John Rodden, author of The Politics of Literary Reputation: The Making and Claiming of St. George Orwell, Scenes from an Afterlife: The Legacy of George Orwell, and Every Intellectual’s Big Brother: George Orwell’s Literary Siblings, among other books
