{"product_id":"or-orwell-writing-and-democratic-socialism-9780674282483","title":"Or Orwell: Writing and Democratic Socialism","description":"\u003cp\u003eThere have been many studies of George Orwell's life and work, but nothing quite like this book by Alex Woloch--an exuberant, revisionary account of Orwell's writing. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Good prose is like a window-pane,\" Orwell famously avers. But what kind of literary criticism is possible, face-to-face with Orwell's plain-style prose? Too often this style has been either dismissed by a seemingly more savvy critical theory, or held up as a reprimand against the enterprise of theory. In a series of unusually close and intensive readings--focused on the unstable event of writing itself--Woloch recovers the radical and experimental energies of Orwell's prose. Against accounts that would quickly naturalize Orwell's truthfulness or reduce his window-pane prose to bad faith, Woloch's study bears down on a propulsive irony and formal restlessness that have always been intertwined with Orwell's plain-style. Such restlessness, far from diluting Orwell's democratic and socialist politics, is at its aesthetic and conceptual core. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe first half of \u003ci\u003eOr Orwell\u003c\/i\u003e ranges across his nonfiction prose, including new readings of \"A Hanging,\" \u003ci\u003eThe Road to Wigan Pier\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eInside the Whale\u003c\/i\u003e. The second half develops an extended analysis of a single writing project: Orwell's eighty \"As I Please\" newspaper columns, written for the Socialist weekly \u003ci\u003eTribune\u003c\/i\u003e. Moving through multiple forms and genres, testing the limits of each, Orwell emerges in Woloch's fine-grained account as a boldly unconventional writer and a central figure in twentieth-century literature and political thought.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alex Woloch\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/04\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 432\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.40w x 1.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674282483\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/15\/2016 pg. 18\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2016","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40265551315059,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":57.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_e0dcaa13-b49d-4369-8837-89579ed920e1.jpg?v=1657720685","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/or-orwell-writing-and-democratic-socialism-9780674282483","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}