Animal Farm (by George Orwell)

Orwell, George - pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair, 1903–50, British novelist and essayist, b. Bengal, India. He is best remembered for his scathingly satirical and frighteningly political novels, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four. After attending Eton, he served (1922–27) with the Indian imperial police in Burma (now Myanmar). He returned to Europe in 1927, living penuriously in Paris Read More...

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Animal Farm (by George Orwell)

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Understanding Animal Farm: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents
by John Rodden. 226 pgs.

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Animal Farm is a political allegory of the history of the USSR written in the form of a fable. Its stinging moral warning against the abuse of power is forcefully demonstrated in this casebook through a wide variety of historical, political, and literary documents that are directly applicable to the novel. Included are passages from the Soviet press; excerpts from personal memoirs and correspondence; original translations from Russian and East German sources that show the meaning of Animal Farm for those nations' readers; and historical and political sources on Marxism, the Russian Revolution, the Cold War, and Glasnost. Many of these documents have not been available in print before.

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The Greenwood Press "Literature in Context" Series Student Casebooks to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents

Copyright Acknowledgments

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Acknowledgments

1: The Meaning of Animal Farm

2: Historical Context: Basic Tenets of Marxism

3: The Russian Revolution and Joseph Stalin

4: George Orwell and the Road to Animal Farm

5: Animal Farm and the Early Cold War

6: The 1980s and 1990s: Soviet Glasnost, Third World Communism, and Orwell

7: Animal Farm Themes in Light of Late-Twentieth Century Public Issues

Glossary of Literary Terms

Index

Contributors
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George Orwell's Animal Farm (literary criticism)
by Harold Bloom. 143 pgs.

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'Animal Farm' is the most famous by far of all twentieth-century political allegories, and its account of a group of barnyard animals who revolt against their vicious human master and the submit to a tyranny erected by their own kind can fairly be said to have become a universal drama for our time.

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Modern Critical Interpretations

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Editor's Note

Introduction

Northrop Frye Orwell and Marxism

Robert A. Lee Animal Farm

Richard I. Smyer Animal Farm: the Burden of Consciousness

Bernard Crick the Making of Animal Farm

Daphne Patai Political Fiction and Patriarchal Fantasy

Patrick Reilly the Utopian Shipwreck

Robert Solomon Ant Farm: an Orwellian Allegory

Laraine Fergenson George Orwell's Animal Farm: a Twentieth-Century Beast Fable

V.C: Letemendia Revolution on Animal Farm: Orwell's Neglected Commentary

Michael Peters 'Animal Farm' Fifty Years On

Chronology

Contributors

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Index
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Animal Farm: Sixty Years on Robert Pearce Gives a Historian's-Eye View of George Orwell's Classic Novel, in History Today
by Robert Pearce. 7 pgs.

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Student Companion to George Orwell (Chap. 8 "All Animals Are Equal, but. . .: Animal Farm")
by Mitzi M. Brunsdale. 180 pgs.

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Written with students and general readers in mind, this volume examines George Orwell's powerful fictional writing, as well as his provocative documentaries and essays. Students will gain an appreciation for the many levels of meaning in the allegorical Animal Farm and the startlingly prescient 1984. Brunsdale does a masterful job of showing how personal and world events came together in Orwell's writing. A carefully drawn biographical chapter examines the development of Orwell's worldview from his impressionable student days to his later years as he struggled with his health, his political identity, and his literary career. The literary heritage chapter traces Orwell's influence as a truth-teller and reviews the literary influences that inspired Orwell to experiment and continually refine his writing style. Individual chapters provide in-depth but accessible analysis of each major work of fiction and nonfiction including the often-anthologized essay "Shooting an Elephant" and Orwell's first full-length publication Down and Out in Paris and in London. In addition to plot and character development, considerable attention is given to the historical contexts and the thematic concerns of social injustice that drove Orwell to devote his life to his writing.

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Series Foreword

Preface

1: Becoming Orwell

2: His Only Real Education

3: Getting Ready to Write: Down and Out in Paris and London

4: Settling Down and Writing Books: Burmese Days, a Clergyman's Daughter, Keep the Aspidistra Flying

5: From Mandalay to Wigan Pier: "Shooting an Elephant" and the Road to Wigan Pie

6: Spilling Spanish Beans: Homage to Catalonia

7: Orwell's War: Coming Up for Air and The Lion and the Unicorn

8: All Animals Are Equal, but . . . : Animal Farm

9: In Front of Our Noses: Nineteen Eighty-Four

10: Halfway to 2050: It Depends on You

Selected Bibliography

Index

About the Author
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Classic Cult Fiction: A Companion to Popular Cult Literature (Discussion of Animal Farm begins on p. 10)
by Thomas Reed Whissen. 324 pgs.

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Classic Cult Fiction is a history, analysis, and reference guide to books that have become "bibles" to generations of Europeans and Americans over the past 200 years--books like The Catcher in the Rye. Fearlessly taking on "canon formation," Whissen identifies the top 50 classic cult books, first presenting an informed and witty interpretation of the phenomenon and its characteristics with examples from different cultures and periods. The individual works are each discussed relative to time and place, impact, and audience psychology and analyzed in terms of common cult attributes. A chronological listing of cult fiction adds a number of titles not chosen for the top 50.

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Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Cult Classics

Against Nature (A Rebours)

Animal Farm

Another Roadside Attraction

Axel

Been Down So Long It Looks like Up to Me

The Bell Jar

Brave New World

A Canticle for Leibowitz

The Catcher in the Rye

Catch-22

A Clockwork Orange

The Day of the Locust

Demian

Dune

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

The Fountainhead

Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus

The Great Gatsby

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

The Killer Inside Me

Lady Chatterley's Lover

Lolita

Look Homeward, Angel

Lord of the Flies

The Lord of the Rings

Lost Horizon

Lucky Jim

One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest

On the Road

The Outsider

The Outsiders

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

René

A Separate Peace

Siddhartha

Slaughterhouse-Five or the Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death

The Sorrows of Young Werther (Die Leiden Des Jungen Werthers)

The Stand

Steppenwolf

The Stranger

Stranger in a Strange Land

The Sun Also Rises

The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge

This Side of Paradise

Time and Again

Trout Fishing in America

2001: A Space Odyssey

Walden Two

Warlock

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Chronological Listing of Cult Fiction

Works Cited

Bibliography of Primary Works: First and Current Editions

Books for Further Reading

Index

About the Author
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Dystopian Literature: A Theory and Research Guide ("George Orwell: Animal Farm (1946)" begins on p. 206)
by M. Keith Booker. 412 pgs.

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Dystopian literature is a potent vehicle for criticizing existing social conditions or political systems, and for warning against the potential negative consequences of utopian thought. This reference is a guide to dystopian theory and literature. It discusses the work of key theorists and summarizes several important utopian works to provide a background. The rest of the book summarizes and analyzes numerous dystopian novels, plays, and films.

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Introduction: The Turn to Dystopia in Modern Literature

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Introduction

1: A Guide to Selected Modern Cultural Criticism with Relevance to Dystopian Literature

2: A Guide to Selected Utopian Fictions

Introduction

3: A Guide to Dystopian Fictions

Introduction

4: A Guide to Selected Dystopian Drama

Introduction

Introduction

5: A Guide to Selected Dystopian Films

Bibliography

Index

About the Author
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George Orwell: The Critical Heritage (Includes discussion of Animal Farm in multiple chapters)
by Jeffrey Meyers. 392 pgs.

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This set comprises 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by Routledge in October 1995.

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General Editor's Preface

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Down and Out in Paris and London

1: George Orwell, Introduction to La Vache Enragée

2: Unsigned Notice, Times Literary Supplement

3: C. Day Lewis, Adelphi

4: W. H. Davies, New Statesman and Nation

6: James Farrell, New Republic

7: Daniel George, Tribune

Burmese Days

8: Sean O'faolain, Spectator

9: Unsigned Notice, Times Literary Supplement

10: G. W. Stonier, Fortnightly

11: Malcolm Muggeridge, World Review

12: L. P. Hartley, Observer

A Clergyman's Daughter

13: V. S. Pritchett, Spectator

14: Peter Quennell, New Statesman and Nation

15: Michael Sayers, Adelphi

16: Geoffrey Stone, Commonweal

Keep the Aspidistra Flying

17: William Plomer, Spectator

18: Cyril Connolly, New Statesman and Nation

19: Unsigned Notice, Times Literary Supplement

20: R. R. (richard Rees), Adelphi

21: Kenneth Macpherson, Life and Letters Today

22: Anthony West, New Yorker

23: Henry Popkin, Commonweal

24: Dorothy Van Ghent, Yale Review

25: Isaac Rosenfeld, Commentary

26: Louis Simpson, Hudson Review

The Road to Wigan Pier

27: Victor Gollancz, Foreword

28: Walter Greenwood, Tribune

29: Arthur Calder-Marshall, Time and Tide

30: H. J. Laski, Left News

31: Douglas Goldring, Fortnightly

32: Hamish Miles, New Statesman and Nation

33: Robert Hatch, Nation

34: Philip Toynbee, Encounter

Homage to Catalonia

35: Unsigned Notice, Times Literary Supplement

36: Geoffrey Gorer, Time and Tide

37: John Mcnair, New Leader (london)

38: P. M. (philip Mairet), New English Weekly

39: A. W. J., Manchester Guardian

40: D. W. (douglas Woodruff), Tablet

41: Stephen Spender, World Review

42: T. R. Fyvel, New Leader (new York)

43: George Mayberry, New Republic

44: Herbert Matthews, Nation

45: Hugh Thomas, New Statesman

Coming Up for Air

46: Unsigned Notice, Times Literary Supplement

47: Margery Allingham, Time and Tide

48: Winifred Horrabin, Tribune

49: John Cogley, Commonweal

50: Irving Howe, Nation

51: Edmund Fuller, Saturday Review of Literature

52: James Stern, New Republic

53: Charles Rolo, Atlantic Monthly

54: Isaac Rosenfeld, Partisan Review

Inside the Whale

55: Arthur Calder-Marshall, Time and Tide

56: P. M. (philip Mairet), New English Weekly

57: Unsigned Notice, Times Literary Supplement

58: Max Plowman, Adelphi

59: R. H. (robert Herring), Life and Letters Today

60: Q. D. Leavis, Scrutiny

61: Dwight Macdonald, Partisan Review

The Lion and the Unicorn

62: Graham Greene, Evening Standard

Animal Farm

63: Kingsley Martin, New Statesman and Nation

64: C. C. (cyril Connolly), Horizon

65: Isaac Rosenfeld, Nation

66: Edmund Wilson, New Yorker

67: Northrop Frye, Canadian Forum

Critical Essays (us Title: Dickens, Dali and Others)

68: Stuart Hampshire, Spectator

69: Evelyn Waugh, Tablet

70: Harry Levin, New Republic

71: Eric Bentley, Saturday Review of Literature

72: Wylie Sypher, Nation

73: Edmund Wilson, New Yorker

74: John Middleton Murry, Adelphi

75: Newton Arvin, Partisan Review

76: George Woodcock, 'George Orwell, 19th Century Liberal'

George Woodcock on George Orwell

77: Fredric Warburg, Publisher's Report

1984

78: Julian Symons, Times Literary Supplement

79: Harold Nicolson, Observer

80: Diana Trilling, Nation

81: Daniel Bell, New Leader (new York)

82: Philip Rahv, Partisan Review

83: Samuel Sillen, Masses and Mainstream

84: Golo Mann, Frankfurter Rundschau

85: I. Anisimov, Pravda

86: Herbert Read, World Review

87: Czeslaw Milosz, the Captive Mind

88: James Walsh, Marxist Quarterly

89: V. S. Pritchett, New Statesman and Nation

Obituaries

90: Arthur Koestler, Observer

91: Bertrand Russell, World Review

92: E. M. Forster, Listener

Shooting an Elephant

93: T. R. Fyvel, Tribune

94: Christopher Sykes, New Republic

95: Edmund Wilson, New Yorker

96: C. V. Wedgwood, Time and Tide

England Your England (us Title: Such, Such Were the Joys)

97: Stephen Spender, New Republic

98: Unsigned Notice, Times Literary Supplement

99: Angus Wilson, Observer

100: Henry Popkin, Kenyon Review

101: John Wain, Twentieth Century

102: George Elliott, Hudson Review

103: Anthony Powell, Daily Telegraph

Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters

104: Conor Cruise O'brien, Listener

105: Irving Howe, Harper's

106: Malcolm Muggeridge, Esquire

107: George Steiner, New Yorker

108: Jeffrey Meyers, Philological Quarterly

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The Orwell Mystique: A Study in Male Ideology (Chap. Seven "Political Fiction and Patriarchal Fantasy")
by Daphne Patai. 334 pgs.

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Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

One: Introduction: The Orwell Myth

Two: Roles of Empire

Three: Vagabondage and Labor: The Masculine Mystique

Four: Masculine/Feminine In the Early Fiction

Five: Rites of Manhood, I: Homage to Catalonia And the War Myth

Six: Rites of Manhood, Ii: Flight into Masculinity>

Seven: Political Fiction And Patriarchal Fantasy

Eight: Gamesmanship and Androcentrism In Nineteen Eighty-Four

Nine: Conclusion: Orwell's Despair

Notes

Index
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The Economics of Animal Farm, in Southern Economic Journal
by William A. Hamlen Jr. 16 pgs.

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Essays on Politics and Literature (Chap. Twelve "Animal Farm for Schools")
by Bernard Crick. 259 pgs.

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Preface

Acknowledgements

Foreword

One: Literature and Politics

Two: The Political in Britain's Two National Theatres

NOTES

Three: Young Writers of the Thirties

Four: Koestler's Koestler

Five: Hannah Arendt: Hedgehog or Fox?

Six: Beatrice Webb as English Diarist

Seven: Words

NOTES

Eight: My LSE

Nine: Reading The Observer as a complex text

NOTES

Ten: On the Difficulties of Writing Biography in? General and of Orwell's in particular

Eleven: Reading Nineteen Eighty-Four As Satire

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Twelve: Animal Farm For Schools

Thirteen: Orwell and English Socialism

NOTES

Fourteen: On the Orwell Trail

NOTES

Fifteen: Wedekind's 'Spring Awakening'

Sixteen: Horvath's 'Tales From the Vienna Woods'

Seventeen: Pinter's 'No Man's Land'

Eighteen: Polly By Gaslight

Nineteen: David Edgar Catches Peter Jenkins' Ear at the Barbican

Twenty: Barrault at the Barbican

Index
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Not All Books Are Created Equal: Orwell & His Animals at Fifty, in Commonweal
by Katharine Byrne. 3 pgs.

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