Orwell's "Politics and the English language" in the age of pseudocracy / Hans Ostrom and William Haltom.

• Introduction: be careful what you assign - your students might read it -- You can't handle the truthiness: how "Politics and the English language" suits our pseudocracy better than Orwell's decaying Britain -- Orwell's Corpora delectorum: how Orwell's memorable offenses have obscured Orwell's forgotten thesis -- Toward habits of discernment: refurbishing Orwell's lists amid pseudocracy.

• Orwell's "Politics and the English Language" in the Age of Pseudocracy visits the essay as if for the first time, clearing away lore about the essay and responding to the prose itself. It shows how many of Orwell's rules and admonitions are far less useful than they are famed to be, but it also shows how some of them can be refurbished for our age, and how his major claim--that politics corrupts language, which then corrupts political discourse further, and so on indefinitely--can best be re-deployed today. "Politics and the English Language" has encouraged generations of writers and readers and teachers and students to take great care, to be skeptical and clear-sighted. The essay itself requires a fresh, clear, skeptical analysis so that it can, with reapplication, reclaim its status as a touchstone in our era of the rule of falsehood: the age of "pseudocracy." 

Ämnesord

Politik i litteraturen  (sao)

Engelska språket  (sao)

Retorik  (sao)

English essays  -- 20th century -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

English language  -- Rhetoric. (LCSH)

English essays.  (fast)

English language  -- Rhetoric. (fast)

Politics in literature  (lcsh)

English language  (lcsh)

Rhetoric  (lcsh)

1900-talet  (sao)

1900-1999  (fast)

Genre

Criticism, interpretation, etc.  (fast)

Personnamn

Orwell, George, 1903-1950

Namn/titel

Orwell, George, 1903-1950.: Politics and the English language  -- Criticism and interpretation.

Titel

Politics and the English language (Orwell, George)

Klassifikation

824/.912 (DDC)