On ""Nineteen Eighty-Four"" : Orwell and Our Future.
Saved in:
| Author / Creator: | Gleason, Abbott. |
|---|---|
| Imprint: | Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2010. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (329 pages) |
| Language: | English |
| Subject: | |
| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10364347 |
Table of Contents:
- Dedicatory Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I. Politics And The Literary Imagination
- A Defense of Poesy (The Treatise of Julia)
- Doublespeak and the Minority of One
- Of Beasts and Men: Orwell on Beastliness
- Does Literature Work as Social Science? by The Case of George Orwell
- Part II. Truth, Objectivity, And Propaganda
- Puritanism and Power Politics during the Cold War: George Orwell and Historical Objectivity
- Rorty and Orwell on Truth
- From Ingsoc and Newspeak to Amcap, Amerigood, and Marketspeak
- Part III. Political Coercion
- Mind Control in Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four: Fictional Concepts Become Operational Realities in Jim Jones's Jungle Experiment
- Whom Do You Trust? What Do You Count On?
- Part IV. Technology And Privacy
- Orwell versus Huxley: Economics, Technology, Privacy, and Satire
- On the Internet and the Benign Invasions of Nineteen Eighty-Four
- The Self-Preventing Prophecy; or, How a Dose of Nightmare Can Help Tame Tomorrow's Perils
- Part V. Sex And Politics
- Sexual Freedom and Political Freedom
- Sex, Law, Power, and Community
- Nineteen Eighty-Four, Catholicism, and the Meaning of Human Sexuality
- Conclusion
- The Death of Pity: Orwell and American Political Life
- Contributors
- Index