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Orwell's "Politics and the English language" in the age of pseudocracy
- Title
- Orwell's "Politics and the English language" in the age of pseudocracy / Hans Ostrom and William Haltom.
- Author
- Ostrom, Hans A.
- Publication
- New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.
- New York, NY ; Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2018.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Haltom, William
- Description
- vi, 114 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- Orwell's "Politics and the English Language" in the Age of Pseudocracy visits the essay as if for the first time, clearing away lore about the essay and responding to the prose itself. It shows how many of Orwell's rules and admonitions are far less useful than they are famed to be, but it also shows how some of them can be refurbished for our age, and how his major claim--that politics corrupts language, which then corrupts political discourse further, and so on indefinitely--can best be re-deployed today. "Politics and the English Language" has encouraged generations of writers and readers and teachers and students to take great care, to be skeptical and clear-sighted. The essay itself requires a fresh, clear, skeptical analysis so that it can, with reapplication, reclaim its status as a touchstone in our era of the rule of falsehood: the age of "pseudocracy."
- Series Statement
- Routledge studies in rhetoric and communication
- Uniform Title
- Routledge studies in rhetoric and communication.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: be careful what you assign - your students might read it -- Rereading "Politics and the English language: -- You can't handle the truthiness: how "Politics and the English language" suits our pseudocracy better than Orwell's decaying Britain -- Orwell's Corpora delectorum: how Orwell's memorable offenses have obscured Orwell's forgotten thesis -- Toward habits of discernment: refurbishing Orwell's lists amid pseudocracy.
- Call Number
- JFD 18-2938
- ISBN
- 1138499900
- 9781138499904
- OCLC
- 1014146955
- Author
- Ostrom, Hans A., author.
- Title
- Orwell's "Politics and the English language" in the age of pseudocracy / Hans Ostrom and William Haltom.
- Imprint
- New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.
- Publisher
- New York, NY ; Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2018.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Routledge studies in rhetoric and communicationRoutledge studies in rhetoric and communication.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Added Author
- Haltom, William, author.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 18-2938