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Orwell's "Politics and the English Language" in the Age of Pseudocracy

Orwell's "Politics and the English Language" in the Age of Pseudocracy

Ostrom, Hans
Haltom, William

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication

General ReferenceWriting InstructionGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 1138499900
ISBN13: 9781138499904
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Mar 26 2018
Pages: 114
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.31 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

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.

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