04787cam a2200793Ki 4500 orwellconundrumc0000gott CaSfIA 20250906225013.0 m o d cr|||||||||||| 140617s1992 onc ob 001 0 eng d (OCoLC)881457228 N$T eng rda pn N$T OCLCF JSTOR YDXCP OCLCQ OCLCO EBLCP OCLCO OCL AGLDB MERUC OCLCQ EZ9 IOG OCLCO VTS OCLCQ OCLCO STF REC DKC CNTRU OCLCO OCLCQ OCLCO CaSfIA 9780773591516 (electronic bk.) 0773591516 (electronic bk.) 0886291747 9780886291747 0886291755 9780886291754 PR6029.R84 N53 1992eb PR6029 R8 N53 1992 PR6029* LIT 004120 bisacsh LIT000000 bisacsh 823/.912 22 18.05 bcl 7,25 ssgn Gottlieb, Erika. The Orwell conundrum : a cry of despair or faith in the spirit of man? / Erika Gottlieb. Ottawa : Carleton University Press, 1992. Don Mills, Ont. : Distributed by Oxford University Press Canada 1 online resource (313 pages) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-308) and index. Print version record. Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- PART I: A CRY OF DESPAIR OR FAITH IN THE SPIRIT OF MAN? -- 1. The Orwell Conundrum -- 2. Orwell's Essays: The Birth of the Adversary -- 3. Orwell's Fiction: From Psychological Realism to Political Satire 4. Nineteen Eighty-Four: The Reconciliation of Political Allegory and Psychological Realism PART II: GOLDSTEIN'S BOOK: THE KEY TO THE DECODING OF THE SATIRE: THE SECULAR RELIGION OF TOTALITARIANISM -- 5. Time as Theme and Structure in Dystopian Satire 6. Proles, Intellectuals, and the Betrayal of Socialism: Orwell's Satirical Devices7. Doublethink -- 8. The Demonic World of Oceania: The Persecution of the 'Satanic' Opponent -- 9. The Demonic World of Oceania: The Mystical Adulation of the 'Sacred' Leader -- PART III: CONFRONTING THE DEMONIC IN TOTALITARIANISM: ORWELL AND CONTEMPORARIES 10. The Demonic Spiral: Psycho-Historical Interpretations 11. The Modern Morality Play of Everyman against the Demonic Forces of Totalitarianism: Thomas Mann, Camus, Sartre, and Orwell on the Theme of Betrayal -- 12. What Turns Utopia into Dystopia? The Terror of Science and the Science of Terror: Huxley and Orwell -- PART IV: ORWELL'S TRAGIC HUMANISM 13. The Spirit of Man: Orwell's Response to the 'Realism' of Marx, Freud, and the Existentialists 14. Orwell's Concept of the Tragic: The Synthesis of Nineteenth-Century Moral Idealism and Twentieth-Century Realism -- PART V: COMING THROUGH THE OTHER SIDE: THE METAMORPHOSIS OF TRAGIC IRONY INTO THE MILITANT WIT OF SATIRE: AN ULTIMATE FAITH IN THE SPIRIT OF MAN Orwell, George, 1903-1950. Nineteen eighty-four. Orwell, George, 1903-1950 Criticism and interpretation. English literature 20th century History and criticism. Orwell, George, 1903-1950 Nineteen eighty-four. Orwell, George, 1903-1950 Critique et interpretation. LITERARY CRITICISM European English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. bisacsh LITERARY CRITICISM General. bisacsh Orwell, George, 1903-1950. fast (OCoLC)fst00036162 Nineteen eighty-four (Orwell, George) fast (OCoLC)fst01356950 English literature. fast (OCoLC)fst00911989 1900-1999 fast Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast (OCoLC)fst01411635 Print version: Gottlieb, Erika. Orwell conundrum 0886291747 (OCoLC)25548252 EBSCOhost https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=787524 JSTOR https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt7zt3v9 ProQuest Ebook Central https://public.ebookcentral.proquest.com/choice/publicfullrecord.aspx?p=3332727 https://archive.org/details/orwellconundrumc0000gott Free eBook from the Internet Archive https://openlibrary.org/books/OL11258795M Additional information and access via Open Library orwellconundrumc0000gott ark:/13960/t46r03519