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

by Hans Ostrom and William Haltom

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138499900
• ISBN13: 9781138499904
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 114 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"