Politics and the English Language - Hardcover

Orwell, George

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1851246029 ISBN 13: 9781851246021

Verlag: Bodleian Library, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

George Orwell’s essay examines the power of language to shape political ideas. It is about the importance of writing concisely, clearly and precisely and the dangers to our ability to think when language, especially political language, is obscured by vague, clichéd phrases and hackneyed metaphors. In it, he argues that when political discourse trades clarity and precision for stock phrases, the debasement of politics follows.

First published in Horizon in 1946, Orwell’s essay was soon recognised as an important text, circulated by newspaper editors to their journalists and reprinted in magazines and anthologies of contemporary writing. It continues to be relevant to our own age.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

George Orwell (1903-1950) was a British novelist, journalist and critic, best known for his novels Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four.

D.J. Taylor is an award-winning novelist and critic.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Bodleian Library
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1851246029
• ISBN 13: 9781851246021
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 64
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