{"product_id":"george-orwell-now-von-richard-lance-keeble-hrsg","title":"George Orwell Now!","description":"George Orwell remains an iconic figure today – even though he died in 1950. His dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four depicts a Big Brother society in which the state intrudes into the most intimate details of people’s lives – and, not surprisingly, it became a constant reference point after Edward Snowden’s revelations. The word «Orwellian» is constantly in the media – used either as a pejorative adjective to evoke totalitarian terror or as a complimentary adjective to mean «displaying outspoken intellectual honesty». Interest in Orwell’s life and writings – globally – continues unabated.\nBeginning with a preface by Richard Blair, Orwell’s son, George Orwell Now! brings together thirteen chapters by leading international scholars in four thematic sections:\n• Peter Marks on Orwell and the history of surveillance studies; Florian Zollmann on Nineteen Eighty-Four in 2014; Henk Vynckier on Orwell’s collecting project; and Adam Stock on ‘Big Brother’s Literary Offspring’\n• Paul Anderson «In Defence of Bernard Crick»; Luke Seaber on the «London Section of Down and Out in Paris and London»; John Newsinger on «Orwell’s Socialism»; and Philip Bounds on «Orwell and the Anti-Austerity Left in Britain»\n• Marina Remy on the «Writing of Otherness in Burmese Days and Keep the Aspidistra Flying»; Sreya Mallika Datta and Utsa Mukherjee on «Reassessing Ambivalence in Orwell’s Burma»; and Shu-chu Wei on Orwell’s Animal Farm alongside Chen Jo-his’s Mayor Yin\n• Tim Crook on «Orwell and the Radio Imagination»; and editor Richard Lance Keeble on «Orwell and the War Reporter’s Imagination»\nPeter Stansky, in an afterword, argues that Orwell is now more relevant than ever before.\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9781433129834\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003ePreface by Richard Blair, Son of George Orwell\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9781433129827\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003ePreface by Richard Blair, Son of George Orwell\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Libri","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover - 9781433129834","offer_id":32945629397085,"sku":"9781433129834","price":166.1,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Softcover - 9781433129827","offer_id":40374287106141,"sku":"9781433129827","price":43.1,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/396c801e-8b87-4d45-a433-74ab0ebd0aba.jpg?v=1780805956","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/en\/products\/george-orwell-now-von-richard-lance-keeble-hrsg","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}