George Orwell Now!(English, Paperback, unknown)

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George Orwell Now!(English, Paperback, unknown) is written by unknown and published by Peter Lang Publishing Inc. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1433129825 (ISBN 10) and 9781433129827 (ISBN 13).

George Orwell remains an iconic figure today - even though he died in 1950. His dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four depicts a Big Brother society in which the state intrudes into the most intimate details of people's lives - and, not surprisingly, it became a constant reference point after Edward Snowden's revelations. The word <> is constantly in the media - used either as a pejorative adjective to evoke totalitarian terror or as a complimentary adjective to mean <>. Interest in Orwell's life and writings - globally - continues unabated. Beginning with a preface by Richard Blair, Orwell's son, George Orwell Now! brings together thirteen chapters by leading international scholars in four thematic sections: * Peter Marks on Orwell and the history of surveillance studies; Florian Zollmann on Nineteen Eighty-Four in 2014; Henk Vynckier on Orwell's collecting project; and Adam Stock on 'Big Brother's Literary Offspring' * Paul Anderson <>; Luke Seaber on the >; John Newsinger on <>; and Philip Bounds on <> * Marina Remy on the >; Sreya Mallika Datta and Utsa Mukherjee on <>; and Shu-chu Wei on Orwell's Animal Farm alongside Chen Jo-his's Mayor Yin * Tim Crook on <>; and editor Richard Lance Keeble on <> Peter Stansky, in an afterword, argues that Orwell is now more relevant than ever before.