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Genre/Form: | Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Animal farm. Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc. ; Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, [2018] (OCoLC)1051431403 |
Named Person: | George Orwell; George Orwell; George Orwell |
Material Type: | Biography, Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Thomas Horan |
ISBN: | 9781682179185 1682179184 |
OCLC Number: | 1056176764 |
Description: | 1 online resource (xxx, 221 pages) |
Contents: | Contents -- About this volume / Thomas Horan -- On Animal Farm / Thomas Horan -- Biography of George Orwell / Thomas Horan -- Critical contexts -- His fable, right or left: Orwell, Animal Farm, and the politics of critical reception / Erik Jaccard -- Animal Farm and the American left, 1945-1947 / Bradley Hart -- Rendering animals: thought for food, meat for metaphor / Gregory Brophy -- From "a fairy story" to "darning a worn-out sock, cadging a saccharine tablet, saving a cigarette end": narrative strategies in George Orwell's Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four / Rafeeq O. McGiveron -- Critical readings -- Are rats comrades? Metaphor and allegory in Goerge Orwell's Animal Farm / Brian Ireland -- Writing revolution: Orwell's not-so-plain style in Animal Farm / Paige Busby -- "This world and the next": religious text and subtext in Animal Farm / Camilo Peralta -- "Just smile and nod": the absent malcontent in Animal Farm / Charity Gibson -- From Eric to Tony Blair: Animal Farm in modern British political discourse / Richard Carr -- The typecasting of female characters in Goerge Orwell's Animal Farm and Disney's Zootopia / Melanie A. Marotta -- Tensions, tenor, and vehicle: Animal Farm and the evolution of the animal fable / Josephine A. McQuail -- A tale of violence: Animal Farm as an allegory of social order / Dario Altobelli -- The biopolitics of totalitarianism in Orwell's Animal Farm / Andrew Byers -- The function of humor in George Orwell's Animal Farm / Robert C. Evans. |
Series Title: | Critical insights. |
Responsibility: | editor, Thomas Horan, the Citadel. |
Abstract:
Offers a multidisciplinary range of perspectives on George Orwell's classic satire. This volume includes a consideration of Animal Farm's rhetorical use by contemporary British politicians, a biopolitical reading of the text, a consideration of the work within the tradition of beast fables, and an analysis of Orwell's use of humour.
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