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PublisherHarperCollins

ISBN-100156033070

ISBN-139780156033077

eBay Product ID (ePID)72431679

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Book TitleAll Art Is Propaganda

Number of Pages416 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2009

TopicLetters, Essays, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

GenrePoetry, Literary Collections

AuthorKeith Gessen, George Orwell

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight11.9 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.3 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

Grade FromNinth Grade

Table Of Contentcontents Foreword by George Packer * ix Introduction by Keith Gessen * xvii Charles Dickens * 1 Boys' Weeklies * 63 Inside the Whale * 95 Drama Reviews: The Tempest, The Peaceful Inn * 141 Film Review: The Great Dictator * 144 Wells, Hitler and the World State * 148 The Art of Donald McGill * 156 No, Not One * 169 Rudyard Kipling * 177 T. S. Eliot * 194 Can Socialists Be Happy? * 202 Benefit of Clergy: Some Notes on Salvador Dali * 210 Propaganda and Demotic Speech * 223 Raffles and Miss Blandish * 232 Good Bad Books * 248 The Prevention of Literature * 253 Politics and the English Language * 270 Confessions of a Book Reviewer * 287 Politics vs. Literature: An Examination of Gulliver's Travels * 292 Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool * 316 Writers and Leviathan * 337 Review of The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene * 346 Reflections on Gandhi * 352 Notes * 363

SynopsisAs a critic, George Orwell cast a wide net. Equally at home discussing Charles Dickens and Charlie Chaplin, he moved back and forth across the porous borders between essay and journalism, high art and low. A frequent commentator on literature, language, film, and drama throughout his career, Orwell turned increasingly to the critical essay in the 1940s, when his most important experiences were behind him and some of his most incisive writing lay ahead. All Art Is Propaganda follows Orwell as he demonstrates in piece after piece how intent analysis of a work or body of work gives rise to trenchant aesthetic and philosophical commentary. With masterpieces such as "Politics and the English Language" and "Rudyard Kipling" and gems such as "Good Bad Books," here is an unrivaled education in, as George Packer puts it, "how to be interesting, line after line.", The essential collection of critical essays from a twentieth-century master and author of 1984. As a critic, George Orwell cast a wide net. Equally at home discussing Charles Dickens and Charlie Chaplin, he moved back and forth across the porous borders between essay and journalism, high art and low. A frequent commentator on literature, language, film, and drama throughout his career, Orwell turned increasingly to the critical essay in the 1940s, when his most important experiences were behind him and some of his most incisive writing lay ahead. All Art Is Propaganda follows Orwell as he demonstrates in piece after piece how intent analysis of a work or body of work gives rise to trenchant aesthetic and philosophical commentary. With masterpieces such as "Politics and the English Language" and "Rudyard Kipling" and gems such as "Good Bad Books," here is an unrivaled education in, as George Packer puts it, "how to be interesting, line after line." With an Introduction from Keith Gessen., The essential collection of critical essays from a twentieth-century master and author of 1984 .As a critic, George Orwell cast a wide net. Equally at home discussing Charles Dickens and Charlie Chaplin, he moved back and forth across the porous borders between essay and journalism, high art and low. A frequent commentator on literature, language, film, and drama throughout his career, Orwell turned increasingly to the critical essay in the 1940s, when his most important experiences were behind him and some of his most incisive writing lay ahead. All Art Is Propaganda follows Orwell as he demonstrates in piece after piece how intent analysis of a work or body of work gives rise to trenchant aesthetic and philosophical commentary. With masterpieces such as "Politics and the English Language" and "Rudyard Kipling" and gems such as "Good Bad Books," here is an unrivaled education in, as George Packer puts it, "how to be interesting, line after line." With an Introduction from Keith Gessen.

LC Classification NumberPR6029.R8A626 2009