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ENGL-246-01 Orwell and the Politics of Style
Spring only
The course examines the writing of George Orwell, among the most widely read and visible figures of twentieth-century literature. In our reading of works such as The Road to Wigan Pier, Homage to Catalonia, Burmese Days, Coming Up for Air, Animal Farm, Nineteen Eighty-Four, as well as his essays, we shall consider the interrelated subjects of Orwell’s representation of Englishness, his accounts of the role of the writer, and the convergent circumstances under which he was writing, such as the Spanish Civil War, the rise of fascism, the emergence of Stalinism, and the resistance to British colonial rule. In particular, we shall question and explore the relationship between his epistemological claims and the style of Orwell’s literary prose, his essays, and his reportage.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
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