Literature and Politics : Pushing the World in Certain Directions
ISBN: 9781443836036
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Limited; Download: 7 Days at a Time
Subjects: Literature;

George Orwell argued that one of the four great motives for a prose writer was the desire OCyto push the world in a certain direction, to alter other peopleOCOs idea of the kind of society that they should strive afterOCO. This book contains exciting new work by established and emerging scholars that explores political literature over the last century and a half. It shows how, from The Communist Manifesto to the dystopian future of Margaret AtwoodOCOs Oryx and Crake, writers have attempted to alter p...


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