George Orwell's 1984 /edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom. George Orwell's Nineteen eighty-four - Updatedition. edition. - New York : Chelsea House, (c)2007. - vii, 205 pages ; 25 cm. - Bloom's modern critical interpretations .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Afterword : Nineteen eighty-four in 1984 / Composing Nineteen eighty-four : the art of nightmare / The demonic world of Oceania : the mystical adulation of the 'sacred' leader / Totalitarianism : a new story? an old story? / The ghostly bells of London / Newspeak and the language of the party / The hell of Nineteen eighty-four / The masks of passion / The heresy of common sense : the prohibition of decency in Nineteen eighty-four / Doublespeak and the minority of one / Harold Bloom -- Raymond Williams -- Sue Lonoff -- Erika Gottlieb -- Laurence Lerner -- Robert Plank -- Roger Fowler -- Malcolm Pittock -- Steven Carter -- Anthony Stewart -- Homi K. Bhabha.

Presents ten essays on George Orwell's "1984," covering such topics as the novel's composition, Newspeak, adulation of the leader, and the prohibition of decency, and includes a chronology and a bibliography.



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Orwell, George, 1903-1950. --


Science fiction, English--History and criticism.
Dystopias in literature.

PR6029 / .G467 2007