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Reviewed on May 15, 2011
Can there be anything new to say about George Orwell? Longtime Orwell scholar Rodden (communication studies, Univ. of Texas, Austin) thinks there is, but his book largely recycles themes from two of his previous works, Scenes from an Afterlife and Every Intellectual's Big Brother. Yet he does add new perspectives in these 18 chapters (he calls them "reception scenes"), or case studies, on Orwell's literary afterlife. He discusses the work of five wr...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
