Orwell’s “Politics and the English Language” in the Age of Pseudocracy (Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication)

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Synopsis
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."
Copyright:
2018

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Book Size:
114 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781351013864
Related ISBNs:
9781351013871, 9781138499904, 9781138499904, 9781138499904, 9780367607173, 9781351013871
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Taylor and Francis
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No
Language:
English
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Categories:
Nonfiction, Language Arts, Politics and Government
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