George Orwell's 1984
By: edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
Contributors: Bloom, Harold.
Edition: Updated ed.
Series: Bloom's modern critical interpretations
Publisher: Chelsea House
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
ISBN-13: 9780791093009
Subjects: Orwell, George, -- 1903-1950.; Science fiction, English -- History and criticism.; Dystopias in literature.
Other titles: George Orwell's Nineteen eighty-four
Description: Presents ten essays on George Orwell's "1984," covering such topics as the novel's composition, Newspeak, adulation of the leader, and the prohibition of decency, and includes a chronology and a bibliography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-195) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Harold Bloom; title: Afterword : Nineteen eighty-four in 1984 / Raymond Williams; title: Composing Nineteen eighty-four : the art of nightmare / Sue Lonoff; title: The demonic world of Oceania : the mystical adulation of the 'sacred' leader / Erika Gottlieb; title: Totalitarianism : a new story? an old story? / Laurence Lerner; title: The ghostly bells of London / Robert Plank; title: Newspeak and the language of the party / Roger Fowler; title: The hell of Nineteen eighty-four / Malcolm Pittock; title: The masks of passion / Steven Carter; title: The heresy of common sense : the prohibition of decency in Nineteen eighty-four / Anthony Stewart; title: Doublespeak and the minority of one / Homi K. Bhabha.