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    George Orwell: The Politics of Literary Reputation

    The making of literary reputations is as much a reflection of a writer’s surrounding culture and politics as it is of the intrinsic quality and importance of his work

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    Understanding Animal Farm: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents

    John Rodden

    A valuable collection of commentary and historical documents that enrich the reading of Animal Farm as a political fable.

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    The Walls That Remain: Eastern and Western Germans Since Reunification

    John Rodden

    The Walls That Remain explores the trauma of German reunification in 1990 as it affected ordinary Eastern and Western Germans.

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    The Intellectual Species: Evolution or Extinction?

    John Rodden

    This book explores the prospects for survival of what we have come to know as the intellectual in the post-Gutenberg age.

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    Every Intellectual’s Big Brother: George Orwell’s Literary Siblings

    John Rodden

    John Rodden uses the concept of reception history to shed new light on the way the memory of George Orwell has shaped and been shaped by the intellectuals of the…

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    The Unexamined Orwell

    John Rodden

    Continuing his masterful investigation of the ongoing reception and continual reinvention of George Orwell six decades after his death, Rodden delves into numerous aspects of Orwell’s legacy that have been…

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    Scenes from an Afterlife

    John Rodden

    Rodden, one of the world’s leading Orwell scholars, sorts through the uses to which Orwell has been put in the last few decades, suggesting where, when, and why Orwell’s friends…

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    Irving Howe and the Critics: Celebrations and Attacks

    Discusses Howe’s critical reputation from the 1940s to the 1990s. This work presents a selection of essays and reviews about the work of Irving Howe (1920-93), a vocal radical humanist…

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    Irving Howe and the Critics: Celebrations and Attacks

    A selection of essays and reviews about Irving Howe (1920-93), a vocal radical humanist and the influential American socialist intellectual of his generation. Howe authored eighteen books, edited twenty-five more…

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    Of G-Men and Eggheads: The FBI and the New York Intellectuals

    John Rodden

    Spy romances of Cold War counterespionage evoke scenes of heroic FBI and CIA agents dedicated to smashing communism and its subversive coterie of intellectual fellow travelers bent on painting the…

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    Performing the Literary Interview: How Writers Craft Their Public Selves

    John Rodden

    Featuring conversations with nine authors, including poets Richard Howard and Gerald Stern, novelist Isabel Allende, and scholar-intellectual Camille Paglia, this book gives a look at literary interview as performance art…

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    Becoming George Orwell: Life and Letters, Legend and Legacy

    John Rodden

    Is George Orwell the most influential writer who ever lived? Yes, according to Rodden’s provocative book about the transformation of a man into a myth. He charts the astonishing passage…

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    George Orwell

    A great starting point for students seeking an introduction to Orwell and the critical discussions surrounding his work.

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    Worlds of Irving Howe: The Critical Legacy

    John Rodden

    Wide-ranging anthology of criticism devoted to the literary, cultural and political work of the writer Irving Howe.

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    George Orwell: The Politics of Literary Reputation

    John Rodden

    This study examines how George Orwell’s legacy as a writer developed, and the importance of his work both during and after his lifetime. John Rodden seeks to bring Orwell’s work…

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    Of G-Men and Eggheads: The FBI and the New York Intellectuals

    John Rodden

    Spy romances of Cold War counterespionage evoke scenes of heroic FBI and CIA agents dedicated to smashing communism and its subversive coterie of intellectual fellow travelers bent on painting the…

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    Worlds of Irving Howe: The Critical Legacy

    John Rodden

    Wide-ranging anthology of criticism devoted to the literary, cultural and political work of the writer Irving Howe.

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    Becoming George Orwell: Life and Letters, Legend and Legacy

    John Rodden

    Is George Orwell the most influential writer who ever lived? Yes, according to Rodden’s provocative book about the transformation of a man into a myth. He charts the astonishing passage…

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    The Cambridge Companion to George Orwell

    George Orwell is regarded as the greatest political writer in English of the twentieth century. Chapters in this 2007 Companion address his positions on war and pacifism, patriotism, his anti-Communism…

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    The Cambridge Companion to George Orwell

    George Orwell is regarded as the greatest political writer in English of the twentieth century. Chapters in this 2007 Companion address his positions on war and pacifism, patriotism, his anti-Communism…

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    George Santayana: A Biography

    John McCormick

    From the late 19th century to the middle of the 20th, George Santayana was an esteemed and widely read writer of philosophy, poetry, essays, memoirs, and even a best-selling novel…

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    Lionel Trilling and the Critics: Opposing Selves

    John Rodden

    A comprehensive portrait of Lionel Trilling, perhaps the most influential American cultural critic of the twentieth century. The contributors are a who’s who of Anglo-American intellectuals from the 1930s through…

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    George Orwell: Into the Twenty-first Century

    Thomas Cushman,John Rodden

    Explorest the life and work of one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century.

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    George Orwell: Into the Twenty-first Century

    Thomas Cushman,John Rodden

    Explorest the life and work of one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century.

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    Conversations with Isabel Allende

    A collection of interviews with the famous Chilean-American author.

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    A Study of George Orwell: The Man and His Works

    Christopher Hollis

    Author Christopher Hollis knew George Orwell personally during his schooldays at Eton, afterwards in Burma, and at the end of his life. His study of Orwell’s books is therefore illuminated…

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    Textbook Reds: Schoolbooks, Ideology, and Eastern German Identity

    John Rodden (Adjunct Assistant Professor, Communications Dept., U. Texas)

    Textbook Reds is a work in the sociology of education, and literary sociology and history. Rodden shows that the deepest roots of German Democratic Republic society were indeed located in…

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    Dialectics, Dogmas, and Dissent: Stories from East German Victims of Human Rights Abuse

    John Rodden (Adjunct Assistant Professor, Communications Dept., U. Texas)

    Accounts of human rights violations committed from the 1950s to the 1980s by the communist dictatorship in the former German Democratic Republic (GDR).

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    The Cambridge Introduction to George Orwell

    John Rodden (University of Texas, Austin),John Rossi (La Salle University, Philadelphia)

    One of the most influential literary figures of the twentieth century, George Orwell remains a crucial voice for our times. Examining Orwell’s life, work and legacy, and including detailed discussions…

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    The Cambridge Introduction to George Orwell

    John Rodden (University of Texas, Austin),John Rossi (La Salle University, Philadelphia)

    One of the most influential literary figures of the twentieth century, George Orwell remains a crucial voice for our times. Examining Orwell’s life, work and legacy, and including detailed discussions…

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    Repainting the Little Red Schoolhouse: A History of Eastern German Education, 1945-1995

    John G. Rodden (Adjunct Professor in Speech Communication, Adjunct Professor in Speech Communication, University of Texas, Austin)

    An English-language study of GDR education which traces the history of eastern German education from 1945 through the 1990’s. It traces the history of the GDR’s attempt to create a…

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    Proceedings of the Fifth European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work

    The emergence of network facilities and the increased availability of personal computer systems over the last decade has seen the development of interest in the use of computers to support…

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    Proceedings of the Fifth European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work

    The emergence of network facilities and the increased availability of personal computer systems over the last decade has seen the development of interest in the use of computers to support…

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