On nineteen eighty-four Geason, Abbott; Goldsmith, Jack; Nussbaum, Martha C
2005., 20100728, 2010, 2005, 2005-01-01
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George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is among the most widely read books in the world. For more than 50 years, it has been regarded as a morality tale for the possible future of modern society, a ...future involving nothing less than extinction of humanity itself. Does Nineteen Eighty-Four remain relevant in our new century? The editors of this book assembled a distinguished group of philosophers, literary specialists, political commentators, historians, and lawyers and asked them to take a wide-ranging and uninhibited look at that question. The editors deliberately avoided Orwell scholars in an effort to call forth a fresh and diverse range of responses to the major work of one of the most durable literary figures among twentieth-century English writers.
George Orwell 1984 adlı eser bir distopya olarak yazılmış olsa da Soğuk Savaş döneminin gelecekteki yansıma ve sonuçları üzerine analizi, yazar tarafından romanlaştırılarak aktarılmasına sebep ...olmuştur. 1984 adlı eser üzerine pek çok çalışma gerçekleştirilmiştir. Ancak istihbarat ve güvenlik üzerine akademik incelemeler yeterli sayıda değildir. George Orwell’in 1984 adlı eseri Alman faşizminden, iktidarın düşman yaratarak kitleleri kontrol edip bu sayede rejimi güçlü tutmanın yollarını eserinde göstermiştir. George Orwell’in güvenlik ve istihbarat yaklaşımı 21. yüzyıl uluslararası sistemine de benzemektedir. Özellikle George Orwell’in yazmış olduğu 1984 adlı eserde iç güvenlik çalışmaları günümüz Orta Doğu muhaberat sistemine de benzemektedir. 1984 adlı eserde düşman yaratmak ve yaratılan düşman ile birlikte tehdit ve risk unsurlarının spesifik bir şekilde belirtilmesi eseri ayrıca dikkat çekici bir hale getirmektedir. Çalışmanın amacı 1984 adlı eserinin güvenlik yaklaşımı incelenmesidir. Özellikle otoriter rejimlerin istihbarat ve kolluk kuvvetleri ile toplumların kontrol edilmesi ve otoriter rejimlerin toplumları terörize etme durumu incelenmiştir.
Although George Orwell's 1984 was written as a utopia, it led to an analysis of the future reflections and consequences of the Cold War era by being fictionalized by the author. Numerous studies have been conducted on the work 1984. However, there are not enough academic studies on intelligence and security. George Orwell's work in 1984 shows ways of controlling the masses by creating enemies and thus keeping the regime strong, similar to the ways in which German fascism did. George Orwell's security and intelligence approach also resembles the 21st century international system. In particular, the internal security measures in the work 1984 resemble the current Middle Eastern intelligence system. Creating an enemy in the work 1984 and specifying threat and risk factors in a specific way also make the work particularly striking. With this study, the security and intelligence approaches of the work 1984 have been examined. The aim of the study is to examine the security approach in 1984. In particular, how authoritarian regimes control intelligence and law enforcement security and societies has been examined. In addition to this situation, the potential for terrorizing the state or society in the authoritarian regime(s) in the book 1984 has been examined by literature review.
Breaks new critical ground by exploring philosophical and aesthetic issues germane to the writings of three major modern literary figures. In the 1920s and ‘30s, understandings of time, place, ...and civilization were subjected to a barrage of new conceptions. Ronald Berman probes the work of three writers who wrestled with one or more of these issues in ways of lasting significance. Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Orwell all grappled with fluid notions of time: Hemingway’s absolute present, Fitzgerald’s obsession with what might be and what might have been, and Orwell’s concerns with progress. For these authors, progress is also tied to competing senses of place--for Fitzgerald, the North versus the South; for Hemingway, America versus Europe. At stake for each is an understanding of what constitutes true civilization in a post-war world. Berman discusses Hemingway’s deployment of language in tackling the problems of thinking and knowing. Berman follows this notion further in examining the indisputable impact upon Hemingway’s prose of Paul Cézanne’s painting and the nature of perception. Finally, Berman considers the influence on Orwell of Aristotle and Freud’s ideas of civilization, translated by Orwell into the fabric of 1984 and other writings. Ronald Berman is Professor of English at the University of California at San Diego and past chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities. He is author of six books, including “The Great Gatsby” and Fitzgerald’s World of Ideas and Fitzgerald-Wilson-Hemingway: Language and Experience.
Arguably the most influential political writer of the twentieth century, George Orwell remains a crucial voice for our times. Known world-wide for his two best-selling masterpieces Nineteen ...Eighty-Four, a gripping portrait of a dystopian future, and Animal Farm, a brilliant satire on the Russian Revolution, Orwell has been revered as an essayist, journalist and literary-political intellectual, and his works have exerted a powerful international impact on the post-World War Two era. This Introduction examines Orwell's life, work and legacy, addressing his towering achievement and his ongoing appeal. Combining important biographical detail with close analysis of his writings, the book considers the various genres in which Orwell wrote: the realistic novel, the essay, journalism and the anti-utopia. Ideally suited for readers approaching Orwell's work for the first time, the book concludes with an extended reflection on why George Orwell has enjoyed a literary afterlife unprecedented among modern authors in any language.
This study investigates the processes used by George Orwell in the formation of euphemism in Animal Farm and examines how far five Arabic translations of the novel succeed in conveying the ...euphemistic purposes of the Source text, and the euphemism formation procedures used in these translations. There are plenty of studies on euphemism and on the novel, but not a single study on translating euphemism in Animal Farm, hence this study. Twenty euphemistic expressions are classified based on Warren’s 1992 model and their five Arabic translations are analyzed. The study finds that 95% of the expressions are rendered literally and succeed in rendering the intended meaning, maintaining the same device. The study also finds that Orwell uses a device that is not categorized in Warren’s 1992 classification of euphemism innovation model and therefore it is defined and labelled as “Overstatement Paraphrasing”.
Gospels and grit Breton, Rob
Gospels and grit,
2005, 20050520, 2000, 2005-01-01
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Work has had a problematic history in Western thought: disparaged as being contrary to contemplation, seen as a necessary burden, and invested with moral or even sacred value. In the Victorian era, a ...romantic-utilitarian dichotomy developed, and ideas of work were more radically divided than at any other time. On the one hand, the most popular mythologies propagated work as a value in itself - the 'Gospel of Work' - defining and building character and fostering well-being and a sense of fulfillment. On the other hand, with widespread industrialism, automation, and the division of labour, work was perceived as toil for extrinsic gain.
Gospels and Gritexamines the literary representations of work and labour in the Victorian works of Thomas Carlyle and the twentieth-century writings of Joseph Conrad and George Orwell, exploring how the three systematically displaced the conflict between the Gospel of Work and a non-idealist, non-theoretical pragmatism. Rob Breton argues that these writers were unwilling or unable to provide a resolution to the conflicting discourses and locates fissures emerging out of the division between work and the economic. This is an important and well-written study that provides a new depth of insight into Victorian ideology and working-class culture.
The Orwell conundrum Gottlieb, Erika
The Orwell conundrum,
1992, 19920915, 1992, 1992-09-15
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An important contribution to the understanding of George Orwell's thought, particularly to Nineteen Eighty Four. The author challenges the view of the novel as a flawed work of crushing pessimism, ...arguing convincingly that it is a great humanist's mature vision of his deeply troubled times.
