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The Language of George Orwell

  • Textbook
  • © 1995

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Authors:
  1. Roger Fowler
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Part of the book series: The Language of Literature (LOL)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Orwell’s Life and Career

    • Roger Fowler
    Pages 1-6

  3. Preliminaries

    • Roger Fowler
    Pages 7-18

  4. Orwell’s Views on Language

    • Roger Fowler
    Pages 19-34

  5. A Personal Voice

    • Roger Fowler
    Pages 35-59

  6. Versions of Realism

    • Roger Fowler
    Pages 60-86

  7. Voices of the Other

    • Roger Fowler
    Pages 87-118

  8. Further Aspects of Style

    • Roger Fowler
    Pages 119-135

  9. Point of View in Orwell’s Fiction

    • Roger Fowler
    Pages 136-158

  10. Animal Farm

    • Roger Fowler
    Pages 159-180

  11. Nineteen Eighty-Four

    • Roger Fowler
    Pages 181-227

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 228-249
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About this book

George Orwell is well known for his strong views on language, society and politics, and admired for the robust, personal tone of his writings. The Language of George Orwell, the first detailed study of his style, demonstrates his stylistic versatility, and analyzes the linguistic techniques which create a variety of memorable effects in his novels and other prose works. Roger Fowler is a leading exponent of linguistic criticism, the method of analysis employed in this book.

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