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Title Animal farm / editor, Thomas Horan, the Citadel.

Publication Info. Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Incorporated ; Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, [2018]
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Edition [First edition].
Description 1 online resource (xxx, 221 pages).
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Series Critical insights
Critical insights.
Note Edition statement supplied by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary "Animal Farm offers a multidisciplinary range of perspectives on George Orwells classic satire. The volume of essay includes a consideration of Animal Farms rhetorical use by contemporary British politicians, a biopolitical reading of the text, a consideration of the work within the tradition of beast fables, an assessment within the tradition of literary anthropomorphism, an analysis of Orwells use of humor in the book, and a comparison of narrative strategies in Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four. Through this collection, readers will appreciate Animal Farms influence on literature, politics, sociology, and history"--Amazon.com
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Contents Contents -- About this volume / Thomas Horan -- On Animal Farm / Thomas Horan -- Biography of George Orwell / Thomas Horan -- Critical contexts -- His fable, right or left: Orwell, Animal Farm, and the politics of critical reception / Erik Jaccard -- Animal Farm and the American left, 1945-1947 / Bradley Hart -- Rendering animals: thought for food, meat for metaphor / Gregory Brophy -- From "a fairy story" to "darning a worn-out sock, cadging a saccharine tablet, saving a cigarette end": narrative strategies in George Orwell's Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four / Rafeeq O. McGiveron -- Critical readings -- Are rats comrades? Metaphor and allegory in Goerge Orwell's Animal Farm / Brian Ireland -- Writing revolution: Orwell's not-so-plain style in Animal Farm / Paige Busby -- "This world and the next": religious text and subtext in Animal Farm / Camilo Peralta -- "Just smile and nod": the absent malcontent in Animal Farm / Charity Gibson -- From Eric to Tony Blair: Animal Farm in modern British political discourse / Richard Carr -- The typecasting of female characters in Goerge Orwell's Animal Farm and Disney's Zootopia / Melanie A. Marotta -- Tensions, tenor, and vehicle: Animal Farm and the evolution of the animal fable / Josephine A. McQuail -- A tale of violence: Animal Farm as an allegory of social order / Dario Altobelli -- The biopolitics of totalitarianism in Orwell's Animal Farm / Andrew Byers -- The function of humor in George Orwell's Animal Farm / Robert C. Evans.
Subject Orwell, George, 1903-1950. Animal farm.
Orwell, George, 1903-1950 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Orwell, George, 1903-1950. (OCoLC)fst00036162
Animal farm (Orwell, George) (OCoLC)fst01357727
Totalitarianism in literature.
Dystopias in literature.
Anthropomorphism in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Anthropomorphism in literature. (OCoLC)fst00810265
Dystopias in literature. (OCoLC)fst00900374
Totalitarianism in literature. (OCoLC)fst01904956
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
Added Author Horan, Thomas, 1974- editor.
Other Form: Print version: Animal farm. [First edition]. Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc. ; Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, [2018] 9781682179185 (OCoLC)1051431403
ISBN 9781682179185 (electronic book)
1682179184 (electronic book)
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