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Selected Bookmarks to Websites with Information and Papers about Orwell or 1984
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Below you will find a collection of links to various sites that discuss Orwell or 1984. As you will see, the sites vary in quality and in scholarly value, but they all speak to the enduring hold that Orwell's novel has on popular imagination.
- Immediately below are the links to general information.
- Click here to jump to the links with papers written about 1984.
Below are links to general information about Orwell and 1984.
- Servers with full-text copies of the novel online:
- Project Gutenberg's version of the novel,
- Charles' George Orwell Links' version,
- orwell.ru's version, and
- The Literature Network's version.
- George Orwell Archive
The official archive of Orwell's work at University College London (UCL). My Ph.D. director taught at UCL, and I was invited to give a lecture there in 1986.
- George Orwell Homepage
An excellent site with several of Orwell's essays available online, summaries of his fiction, a discussion board and more.
- The Orwell Reader
Perhaps the single best resource on Orwell and his work on the web. The site is divided into several sections:
- Why Orwell?
- Background
- The Writing
- Biographies
- The World Wide Orwell
- In Other Words
- Essays By Others
Rudy Sedlak has an essay there now called "Orwell On Totalitarianism."
- Charles' George Orwell Links
" On this site you'll find the best of Orwell's essays and books as well as reviews, news articles and images. In addition, there are hundreds of links to other Orwell web sites."
- Eric Arthur Blair
A nice collection of links related to Orwell and his work. Eric Arthur Blair was Orwell's "real" name.
- Orwell's Revenge Home Page
A book (portions of which are available online) by Peter Huber discussing the parallels he sees between contemporary American culture and 1984.
- George Orwell
The Orwell page of an excellent on-line literary magazine and literature source — Bohemian Ink. The Orwell page (lifted from Grolier's Encyclopedia) has an decent bibliography.
- Kelly Tetterton: Dissertation Information
A brief abstract of Kelly Tetterton's dissertation, "Continuing Realism: George Orwell & Doris Lessing and the Traditions of Literary Realism in Twentieth-Century British Literature."
- Invasion Newspeak: U.S. & USSR
An essay on the use of language by a political critic and linguist, Noam Chomsky.
- 1984 produced in 1956, and Nineteen Eighty-Four produced in 1984.
Two film version of 1984 have been made over the years. The Internet Movie Database lists two films:
- American Newspeak
An electronic magazine, an e-zine, devoted to exploring Orwell's ideas about language (especially Newspeak) in contemporary American culture. Extensive and well done.
- Modern Orwellianisms
This website extends the ironies of Orwellian party slogans to contemporary life.
Below are the links to sites with essays and papers on 1984.
- "A Boot Stamping on a Human Face": Orwell's 1984 As a Process of Defacement
An essay (scroll down to section C in the link above) by John Brown of the University of Southern California's Center for Public Diplomacy discusses the dehumanizing nature of Oceania by carefully studying the treatment of the human face in 1984. He makes some interesting observations on contemporary media and our culture in the essay as well. Brown, presently at the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown University, studies U.S. foreign policy, international broadcasting and media, propaganda, cultural diplomacy, anti-Americanism, and the reception of American popular culture abroad. Just read his PD Review site (last link above). His notes are a fount ideas that could generate topics for a research paper on 1984.
- The Chestnut Tree Café
An excellent site with many exceptionally fine essays of criticism of the work, life and times of George Orwell. Subsections include:
- Introduction
- Essays on the work and life of Orwell, including Orwell Now and a dozen or more excellent resources for anyone working on Orwell's work.
- Clear and Present Danger
Gregory Rawlins's essay on the connections he sees between invasion of privacy issues and 1984.
- Additions Treatment and Managed Care: Will Big Brother Continue to Grow?
An essay by Michael T. Flaherty highlighting parallels between contemporary health care system, government regulation, and 1984.
- Report on Orwell's 1984
An essay by Jason Caminiti, a student in The College of Computer Science at Northeastern University.
- It's Like 1984 All Over Again
Another essay by Jason Caminiti.
- Counter-Culture Review: "1985"
A review by Pat Harrington of Gyorgy Dalos's 1985, a sequel to Orwell's novel. Interesting ideas, but more meaningful after you have read 1984.
- The "Not Me" Myth: Orwell and the Mind
An essay by Margaret Singer, Emeritus Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Psychology University of California, Berkeley, on the psychological aspects of 1984 and "negative utopias." She discusses thought reform and cult conversion.
- The Orwellian Mother Goose
An essay proposing that Orwell is the Mother Goose of the 21st century.
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