Political Fictions
1st Edition
Published on 29. February 2024
280 pages
978-1-003-85310-7 (ISBN)
Description
First published in 1980, Political Fictions is a work of literary criticism with emphasis on the specific handling of literary forms. The author examines the way in which writers exploring radical politics simultaneously explore radical literary possibilities and look at the various sorts of fictional modes they use-romance, utopian fable, discovered manuscript, imaginary book. He shows how all the writers under discussion experiment with non-realistic forms- sometimes in dialectical combination with realism as one of the poles of the novel's structure, sometimes in rejection of realism.
Wilding has selected six such writers and examines some of their work in detail: Mark Twain, William Morris, Jack London, D.H. Lawrence, Arthur Koestler, and George Orwell. He has chosen works which he believes have been misunderstood and ignored by Left as well as Right. This is a must read for scholars and researchers of English literature and critical theory.
Wilding has selected six such writers and examines some of their work in detail: Mark Twain, William Morris, Jack London, D.H. Lawrence, Arthur Koestler, and George Orwell. He has chosen works which he believes have been misunderstood and ignored by Left as well as Right. This is a must read for scholars and researchers of English literature and critical theory.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ebooks
Target group
College/higher education
ISBN-13
978-1-003-85310-7 (9781003853107)
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Michael Wilding
Political Fictions
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02/2024
1st Edition
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Michael Wilding
Content
Note on References Acknowledgements Introduction 1. The False Freedoms of Huckleberry Finn 2. News from Nowhere 3. The Iron Heel 4. The Rainbow: 'Smashing the Great Machine' 5. Kangaroo: 'A New Show' 6. Darkness at Noon 7. Nineteen Eighty-Four: Rewriting the Future Bibliography Index
