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Author Ostrom, Hans A., author.

Title Orwell's "politics and the English language" in the age of pseudocracy / Hans Ostrom and William Haltom
Published New York, NY ; Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2018

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Description 1 online resource
Series Routledge studies in rhetoric and communication
Routledge studies in rhetoric and communication.
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Be Careful What You Assignâ#x80;#x94;Your Students Might Read It; 2 Rereading â#x80;#x9C;Politics and the English Languageâ#x80;#x9D;; 3 You Canâ#x80;#x99;t Handle the Truthiness: How â#x80;#x9C;Politics and the English Languageâ#x80;#x9D; Suits Our Pseudocracy Better Than Orwellâ#x80;#x99;s Decaying Britain; 4 Orwellâ#x80;#x99;s Corpora Delectorum: How Orwellâ#x80;#x99;s Memorable Offenses Have Obscured Orwellâ#x80;#x99;s Forgotten Thesis; 5 Toward Habits of Discernment: Refurbishing Orwellâ#x80;#x99;s Lists Amid Pseudocracy; Index
Summary Orwell's "Politics and the English Language" in the Age of Pseudocracy visits the essay as if for the first time, clearing away lore about the essay and responding to the prose itself. It shows how many of Orwell's rules and admonitions are far less useful than they are famed to be, but it also shows how some of them can be refurbished for our age, and how his major claim--that politics corrupts language, which then corrupts political discourse further, and so on indefinitely--can best be re-deployed today. "Politics and the English Language" has encouraged generations of writers and readers and teachers and students to take great care, to be skeptical and clear-sighted. The essay itself requires a fresh, clear, skeptical analysis so that it can, with reapplication, reclaim its status as a touchstone in our era of the rule of falsehood: the age of "pseudocracy."
Notes "Routledge Focus."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 23, 2018)
Subject Orwell, George, 1903-1950. Politics and the English language -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Politics and the English language (Orwell, George) fast (OCoLC)fst01364631
Subject English essays -- 20th century -- History and criticism
English language -- Rhetoric.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English essays.
English language -- Rhetoric.
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Haltom, William, author
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