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Orwell lässt grüßen! – Korpuslinguistische Untersuchungen zur Aktualität Orwells in Plenardebatten des Bundestags
The name George Orwell functions in particular as a synonym for the fictional dystopian vision he depicted in his novel 1984 and in this respect can...
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Orwell, George: Das essayistische Werk
Ästhetische und politische Vorstellungen miteinander in Einklang zu bringen, das sei, so Orwell 1946 im Essay „Why I Write“, sein wichtigstes...
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Orwell, George: Homage to Catalonia
Der autobiographisch berichtende Essay entstand und erschien 1938, kurz nach der Rückkehr des Autors aus Spanien nach England. Orwell hatte zunächst...
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Orwell, George: Coming up for Air
Der 1939 nach der Rückkehr des Autors aus dem Spanischen Bürgerkrieg entstandene Roman evoziert, obwohl zum Teil aus einer humoristischen Perspektive...
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Orwell, George: Animal Farm
Der 1945 erschienene Roman erzählt vom Aufstand der Tiere des Farmers Jones gegen ihren Herrn und vom Umschlag der Revolution in den früheren Status....
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Orwell, George
Schulausbildung u. a. in Wellington und Eton (1917–1921); 1921–1927 im Dienst der britischen Kolonialpolizei in Burma; Gelegenheitsarbeiter in Paris...
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Orwell, George: Nineteen Eighty-Four
Der Autor hatte diesen dystopischen Roman, der 1949 erschien, seit 1943 geplant als Erzählung „about the future – that is [...] in a sense a...
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‘Watch the Skies!’: Guernica, Dresden and the Age of the Bomber in George Orwell and Rex Warner
From Guernica through to Dresden, the 1930s and the Second World War saw an evolution in airpower as a means of destruction. This chapter begins with...
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Jackson, George L.: Soledad Brother
Als die gesammelte Briefe im Oktober 1970 erstmals erschienen, hatte ihr Autor noch elf Monate zu leben. Nach mehr als zehnjähriger Haft wurde er am...
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Dystopian Relativism
In trying to elaborate on the concept of moral deixis in Three Body, Liu Cixin emphasises the ethical relativism of the grand historical scheme....
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Indian Subcontinent Cities in Colonialism and Postcolonialism
This entry should be read in conjunction with the article “Cities in the South Asia Subcontinent,” and with one on Premchand, the Indian novelist of...
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“Necessary Murder”: Eating Meat Against Fascism in Orwell and Auden
This chapter delineates how despite their received status as almost writerly adversaries, George Orwell and W. H. Auden both adopt in their work a...
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‘City Which Holds All Times and Places’: On Urban Landscape in Maggie Gee’s The Flood
This chapter examines urban landscape in Maggie Gee’s speculative novel The Flood (2004). It brings together constructionist and environmentalist...
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Race, Lynching and the Colonial Death Penalty
This chapter reflects substantially on how colonial warfare and a racialised death penalty contribute to the psychology of modern literature. In...
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Speculative Orientalism? On “Eastern” and “Western” Referents in Boualem Sansal’s 2084
Algerian author Boualem Sansal’s French-language novel 2084: La fin du monde [translated into English as 2084: The End of the World] adapts many of...
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Art as Political Activism
In three critical studies of the 1940s Lindsay rejects the notion that an artwork can be neutral. Unity is a key concept that Lindsay uses to...
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De-, and Re-Centering: Teaching Dystopian Texts to Emirati Students
The essay examines the tensions inherent in teaching dystopian texts (in this case, Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We and George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four)...
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Early Indian Fiction (1888–1893) – Context and Background
Kipling’s early stories, most of them very short, do not show the tension between his conservatism and his imagination which is my main subject....
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Henry Miller and the Beats: An Anti-humanist Precedent
This chapter prepares for the book’s discussion of anti-humanism in the counterculture through a case study of earlier American author Henry Miller....