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- W2894550062 abstract "The focus of this chapter is on George Orwell’s attempt to define thenature of a perennial political concern-the proper relationship betweenthe rulers and the ruled-by metaphor, by telling stories. I propose toanalyse some of the stories he tells, in order to decipher what I take tobe his central themes, and to indicate what Orwell, through imaginativeliterature, has added to our understanding of the ruler-ruled relationship.But first I should put some cards on the table. Whilst each reading of awork of imaginative literature, bound as it has to be in what Eagletoncalls a ‘socially structured way of perceiving the world’,1 constituteswhat might be termed a deconstruction, texts can nevertheless be saidto impose certain restraints on the reader; we are not free agents in thismatter. I do not subscribe to the view that ‘there are no poets only poems’(which can be interpreted as the reader pleases). This view impliestrampling on ‘the claim of literary texts in general-to be taken as asocial act’;2 that is to say, a communication referring to the world as weknow it, with a structure and meaning designed by human intelligenceand accessible to human intelligence. I would argue that: ‘In everysentence of a novel or poem, if we know how to read it, we feel thespeaking voice of the writer’,3 what George Steiner referred to as thewriter’s real presence. In short, the writer’s personality and experiencewill shape our understanding of a novel. We are not free to read, ordeconstruct Orwell or anybody else as we please. Whilst there may beno absolutely right way to read him, there are very clearly wrong ways.We know enough about Orwell’s experiences in Burma and about hisown attitudes towards those experiences to have a very clear idea ofwhat he felt about his function as an imperial policeman, and why hewrote so dismissively about the imperial mission. There can be littledoubt that in his writings on Burma Orwell sought to use theseexperiences as a kind of metaphor for the whole imperial experienceand later to construct from the same metaphor a critical model of relationsin capitalist society which reflected the same ‘imperial’ nexus quiteunambiguously." @default.
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- W2894550062 title "The Anti-Imperialism of George Orwell" @default.
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