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vii, 151 pages ; 24 cm. |
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Modern critical interpretations |
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Modern critical interpretations.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
'Animal Farm' is the most famous by far of all twentieth-century political allegories, and its account of a group of barnyard animals who revolt against their vicious human master and the submit to a tyranny erected by their own kind can fairly be said to have become a universal drama for our time. |
| Contents |
Orwell and Marxism / Northrop Frye -- Animal farm / Robert A. Lee -- Animal farm : the burden of consciousness / Richard I. Smyer -- The making of Animal farm / Bernard Crick -- Political fiction and patriarchal fantasy / Daphne Patai -- The utopian shipwreck / Patrick Reilly -- Ant farm : an Orwellian allegory / Robert Solomon -- George Orwell's Animal farm : a twentieth-century beast fable / Laraine Fergenson -- Revolution on Animal farm : Orwell's neglected commentary / V. C. Letemendia -- Animal farm fifty years on / Michael Peters. |
| Subject |
Orwell, George, 1903-1950. Animal farm.
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Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
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Political fiction, English -- History and criticism.
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Fables, English -- History and criticism.
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Animals in literature.
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| Added Author |
Bloom, Harold.
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| ISBN |
0791047741 alkaline paper |
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9780791047743 alkaline paper |
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