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All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays Paperback - 2009 - 1st Edition
by George Orwell; Keith Gessen; Introduction by Keith Gessen
Orwell demonstrates in piece after piece how intent analysis of a work or body of work gives rise to trenchant aesthetic and philosophical commentary.
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As a critic, George Orwell cast a wide net. Equally at home discussing Charles Dickens and Charlie Chaplin, he moved back and forth across the porous borders between essay and journalism, high art and low. A frequent commentator on literature, language, film, and drama throughout his career, Orwell turned increasingly to the critical essay in the 1940s, when his most important experiences were behind him and some of his most incisive writing lay ahead.All Art Is Propaganda follows Orwell as he demonstrates in piece after piece how intent analysis of a work or body of work gives rise to trenchant aesthetic and philosophical commentary. With masterpieces such as "Politics and the English Language" and "Rudyard Kipling" and gems such as "Good Bad Books," here is an unrivaled education in, as George Packer puts it, "how to be interesting, line after line."
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The essential collection of critical essays from a 20th-century masterAs a critic, George Orwell cast a wide net. Equally at home discussing Charles Dickens and Charlie Chaplin, he moved back and forth across the porous borders between essay and journalism, high art and low. A frequent commentator on literature, language, film, and drama throughout his career, Orwell turned increasingly to the critical essay in the 1940s, when his most important experiences were behind him and some of his most incisive writing lay ahead. All Art Is Propaganda follows Orwell as he demonstrates in piece after piece how intent analysis of a work or body of work gives rise to trenchant aesthetic and philosophical commentary.With masterpieces such as "Politics and the English Language" and "Rudyard Kipling" and gems such as "Good Bad Books," here is an unrivaled education in, as George Packer puts it, "how to be interesting, line after line."
"Reaffirm[s] the author's status as one of the definitive essayists in English literature."--Los Angeles Times
GEORGE ORWELL (1903 1950) served with the Imperial Police in Burma, fought with the Republicans during the Spanish Civil War, and was a member of the Home Guard and a writer for the BBC during World War II. He is the author of many works of nonfiction and fiction.GEORGE PACKER is a staff writer for the New Yorker and author of The Assassin's Gate: America in Iraq and other works. He lives in Brooklyn.
KEITH GESSEN was born in Russia and educated at Harvard. He is a founding editor of n+1 and has written about literature and culture for Dissent, the Nation, the New Yorker, and the New York Review of Books. He is the author of the novel All the Sad Young Literary Men.Also in this series: Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays
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- Title All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays
- Author George Orwell; Keith Gessen; Introduction by Keith Gessen
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 416
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Mariner Books Classics, Wilmington, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
- Date 2009-10-14
- Features Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780156033077 / 0156033070
- Weight 0.72 lbs (0.33 kg)
- Dimensions 7.86 x 5.36 x 0.99 in (19.96 x 13.61 x 2.51 cm)
- Ages 14 to UP years
- Grade levels 9 - UP
- Reading level 1300
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- Cultural Region: Germany
- Library of Congress subjects English essays
- Dewey Decimal Code 824.912
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