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1 online resource |
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Routledge studies in rhetoric and communication |
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Routledge studies in rhetoric and communication.
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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
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SUBJECT |
Politics and the English language (Orwell, George) fast (OCoLC)fst01364631 |
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English essays -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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English language -- Rhetoric.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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English essays.
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English language -- Rhetoric.
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Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Haltom, William, author
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ISBN |
9781351013857 |
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1351013858 |
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9781351013864 |
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1351013866 |
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9781351013871 |
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1351013874 |
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9781351013840 |
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135101384X |
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