1984 (For Further Study)

For Further Study

• Paul Chilton and Aubrey Crispin, editors, Nineteen Eighty-Four in 1984, Comedia Publishing Group, 1983.

  Collection of essays focusing on the relevance of Orwell's novel in contemporary political and social life.

• College Literature, Vol. XI, No. 1, 1984, pp. 1-113.

  Issue devoted to studies of 1984.

• Miriam Gross, editor, The World of George Orwell, Simon & Schuster, 1972.

  Collection of critical and biographical essays.

• Alfred Kazin, "Not One of Us," in The New York Review of Books, Vol. XXXI, no. 10, June 14, 1984, pp. 13-4, 16, 18.

  Kazin discusses the political nature of Orwell's novel.

• Modern Fiction Studies, Vol. 21, No. 1, Spring 1975, pp. 3-136.

  Issue devoted to Orwell criticism.

• Erica Munk, "Love Is Hate: Women and Sex in 1984," in Village Voice, Vol. XXVIII, No. 5, February 1, 1983, pp. 50-2.

  Munk criticizes Orwell novel for its inattention to the roles (or lack thereof) of women in Oceania.

• Norman Podhoretz, "If Orwell Were Alive Today," in Harper's, Vol. 266, No. 1592, January, 1983, pp. 30-2, 34-7.

  Podhoretz, using the text of 1984 as evidence, claims Orwell for the neo-conservatives.

• Ian Watt, "Winston Smith: The Last Humanist," in On Nineteen Eighty-Four, edited by Peter Stansky, W. H. Freeman & Co. 1983, pp. 103-13.

  Watt describes Winston Smith as a humanist and his destruction at the hands of the Party as the destruction of the values of humanism.

• George Woodcock, Remembering Orwell, edited by Stephen Wadhams, Penguin, 1984.

  Woodcock disagrees with writers such as Podhoretz who claim Orwell for the neo-conservatives, placing him instead in a line of English literary radicals including Jonathan Swift and Charles Dickens.