Orwell-related article in PoMo Culture

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The Measure of All That Has Been Lost: Hitchens,
Orwell, and the Price of Political Relevance 
Matthew Hart 
University of Pennsylvania 
matthart at english.upenn.edu 

© 2003 Matthew Hart.
All rights reserved. 

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Review of:
Christopher Hitchens, Why Orwell Matters. New York:
Basic, 2002 


Orwell Matters 

1.	Orwell's relevance to contemporary political
thought dominates recent treatments of his essays and
fiction. In his introduction to a recent Penguin
Modern Classics miscellany, Orwell and Politics
(2001), Timothy Garton Ash asks, "Why should we still
read George Orwell on politics?" before providing the
comforting answer that his exemplary political essays
mean that "Orwell's work is never done."[1] The same
problem motivates much of Christopher Hitchens's Why
Orwell Matters, where the prolific author, journalist,
New School Professor of Liberal Studies, and
self-described "contrarian" defends Orwell's "power of
facing" as a political and writerly weapon that
retains its potency in an age of postmodern thought
and post-Cold War geopolitics (13). 


...continues:
<http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/pmc/current.issue/13.3hart.html>

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