George Orwell

A Centenary Celebration. Edited by Annette Gomis and Susana Onega.

As the title suggests, the eleven essays collected in this volume originated in an international Symposium ("Orwell in Spain, A Centenary Celebration", Jaca, Spain, 21-25 March 2003) organised by the editors to celebrate the century of George Orwell's birth. Written by some of the best-known Orwellian specialists, the essays selected in this book reassess Orwell's writings and establish his significance in the history of English Literature, from the vantage point of the contributors' early twenty-first-century perspective. Given the symposium's focus, some of the essays also highlight Orwell's literary and personal relationship with Spain and his participation in the Spanish Civil War. - Contents: Adolphe Haberer: Orwell, MacSpaunday and Spain. - Stephen Ingle: The Lure of the Barricades. Orwell and Revolution. - Gorman Beauchamp: The Triumph of the Crocodile. Pessimism and Orwell's Politics. - Mark Rawlinson: George Orwell and Spain. Writing about England, Militarism and the Proles after 1936. - Andrzej Gasiorek: The Politics of Antinomianism. Orwell, the Everyday, and the Dream of a Common Culture. - Alberto Lázaro: The Censorship of George Orwell's Essays in Spain. - Patrick Parrinder: From Catalonia to England. Orwell's Crisis-Moments. - John A. Stotesbury: Deceptive Cityscapes and Literary Tourism. Reading the Metropolis in Orwell's "Keep the Aspidistra Flying" and "Nineteen Eighty-Four". - Christine Berberich: »Down here it was still the England I had known in my childhood«. Orwell, Englishness and Landscape. - Mohan Ramanan: Orwell, Gandhi and the Idea of the Intellectual. - Annette Gomis: "Burmese Days". A Picture of Colonial Diaspora? - 218 Seiten, broschiert (Anglistische Forschungen; Vol. 351/Universitätsverlag Winter 2005) leichte Lagerspuren/minor shelfwear