https://padlet.com/juliannereads/r69fi6zxf1js en-us 2017-01-14 19:52:20 UTC 2023-09-08 18:10:19 UTC hello@padlet.com juliannereads https://padlet.com/juliannereads/r69fi6zxf1js/wish/147709033 The Orwell Prize has been blogging George Orwell’s personal and politial diary entries, allowing you to gather your own impression of Orwell’s face – behind the screen, rather than the page.
https://orwelldiaries.wordpress.com/ ]]> 2017-01-18 00:46:15 UTC https://padlet.com/juliannereads/r69fi6zxf1js/wish/147709033 juliannereads https://padlet.com/juliannereads/r69fi6zxf1js/wish/147709257 The compelling story of Orwell's torturous stay a Scottish island where the author, close to death and beset by creative demons, was engaged in a feverish race to finish the book.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/may/10/1984-george-orwell]]> 2017-01-18 00:49:21 UTC https://padlet.com/juliannereads/r69fi6zxf1js/wish/147709257 juliannereads https://padlet.com/juliannereads/r69fi6zxf1js/wish/147710422 For two years, between 1941 and 1943, George Orwell - real name Eric Blair - was BBC staff member 9889, hired as a Talks Producer for the Eastern Service to write what was essentially propaganda for broadcast to India.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/orwell/7429.shtml]]> 2017-01-18 01:05:06 UTC https://padlet.com/juliannereads/r69fi6zxf1js/wish/147710422 juliannereads https://padlet.com/juliannereads/r69fi6zxf1js/wish/147711073 What led avowed socialist George Orwell to write a novel beloved of the Right? David Aaronovitch traces how a decade of political chaos shaped Orwell's vision of a totalitarian future.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01qhb8b]]> 2017-01-18 01:13:09 UTC https://padlet.com/juliannereads/r69fi6zxf1js/wish/147711073 juliannereads https://padlet.com/juliannereads/r69fi6zxf1js/wish/147711951 2003 BBC Television docudrama telling the life story of the British author George Orwell. (Chris Langham plays the part of Orwell. No surviving sound recordings or video of the real George Orwell have been found.]]> 2017-01-18 01:24:19 UTC https://padlet.com/juliannereads/r69fi6zxf1js/wish/147711951 juliannereads https://padlet.com/juliannereads/r69fi6zxf1js/wish/147712355 After an undistinguished academic career at Eton, Eric leaves in December 1921. Unlike most of his friends, his parents can't afford to send him to University. When the girl he hopes to marry rejects him, he sets sail for Burma to join the colonial police. His experiences in Burma will affect him profoundly. They will give him material for essays such as 'A Hanging' and 'Shooting An Elephant', and his first novel, 'Burmese Days' - and they will begin to shape his political thinking. When he rejects the Empire and returns to England, Blair begins to spend more and more time with the poor. 
(Source: BBC Radio 4 Podcast)]]> 2017-01-18 01:29:03 UTC https://padlet.com/juliannereads/r69fi6zxf1js/wish/147712355 juliannereads https://padlet.com/juliannereads/r69fi6zxf1js/wish/147714158 Between 1941 and 1943, novelist and essayist George Orwell worked for the Ministry Of Information as a BBC Talks Producer for the Eastern Service.  His job was to write propaganda for broadcast to India, where he was born and served in the police.
http://www.ministry-of-information.com/orwell/]]> 2017-01-18 01:39:14 UTC https://padlet.com/juliannereads/r69fi6zxf1js/wish/147714158 juliannereads https://padlet.com/juliannereads/r69fi6zxf1js/wish/147714820 BBC Room 101 Documentary]]> 2017-01-18 01:47:24 UTC https://padlet.com/juliannereads/r69fi6zxf1js/wish/147714820 juliannereads https://padlet.com/juliannereads/r69fi6zxf1js/wish/147715554 George Orwell's 1984 was made into a movie twice, once in 1956 and again in 1984. The official trailor from the 1984 version:]]> 2017-01-18 01:59:01 UTC https://padlet.com/juliannereads/r69fi6zxf1js/wish/147715554 juliannereads https://padlet.com/juliannereads/r69fi6zxf1js/wish/147716111 How Apple's 1984 Superbowl commercial "1984" created the Superbowl advertising as we know it today. ]]> 2017-01-18 02:06:26 UTC https://padlet.com/juliannereads/r69fi6zxf1js/wish/147716111 juliannereads https://padlet.com/juliannereads/r69fi6zxf1js/wish/147716507 The original "1984" Apple computer commercial that first aired during the 1984 Superbowl. ]]> 2017-01-18 02:12:38 UTC https://padlet.com/juliannereads/r69fi6zxf1js/wish/147716507 juliannereads https://padlet.com/juliannereads/r69fi6zxf1js/wish/147717651 In Myanmar, a long-isolated nation now opening up to the world after decades of brutal military rule, one still finds romantic echoes of the former British colony that inspired the young author to pen his first novel, ‘Burmese Days.’
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/15/t-magazine/myanmar-george-orwell.html]]> 2017-01-18 02:31:55 UTC https://padlet.com/juliannereads/r69fi6zxf1js/wish/147717651 juliannereads https://padlet.com/juliannereads/r69fi6zxf1js/wish/147717880 NPR Podcast. Join host Neal Conan for a discussion about George Orwell, 100 years after his birth.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1310223]]> 2017-01-18 02:36:40 UTC https://padlet.com/juliannereads/r69fi6zxf1js/wish/147717880 juliannereads https://padlet.com/juliannereads/r69fi6zxf1js/wish/147718301 "As soon as certain topics are raised, the concrete melts into the abstract and no one seems able to think of turns of speech that are not hackneyed: prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated hen-house. I list below, with notes and examples, various of the tricks by means of which the work of prose-construction is habitually dodged."
http://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_polit/]]> 2017-01-18 02:43:18 UTC https://padlet.com/juliannereads/r69fi6zxf1js/wish/147718301 juliannereads https://padlet.com/juliannereads/r69fi6zxf1js/wish/148602365 Resigning from the BBC in 1943, Orwell's letter communicates that he felt "the task of broadcasting propaganda to India is completely pointless, stating that he prefers to concentrate his efforts on journalism and may be travelling to North Africa on behalf of 'The Observer'." (Source: BBC, George Orwell and the BBC, Synopsis)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/orwell/7430.shtml]]> 2017-01-22 23:39:24 UTC https://padlet.com/juliannereads/r69fi6zxf1js/wish/148602365 juliannereads https://padlet.com/juliannereads/r69fi6zxf1js/wish/148603426 A very basic way of thinking about literary theory is that these schools of thought act as different lenses critics use to view and talk about art, literature, and even culture.
(Source: Purdue Online Writing Lab)
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/722/01/]]> 2017-01-23 00:04:07 UTC https://padlet.com/juliannereads/r69fi6zxf1js/wish/148603426 juliannereads https://padlet.com/juliannereads/r69fi6zxf1js/wish/148603622 Post-colonial theory looks at issues of power, economics, politics, religion, and culture and how these elements work in relation to colonial hegemony.
(Source: Purdue Online Writing Lab)
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/722/10/]]> 2017-01-23 00:08:03 UTC https://padlet.com/juliannereads/r69fi6zxf1js/wish/148603622 juliannereads https://padlet.com/juliannereads/r69fi6zxf1js/wish/148603733 New Historicism seeks to reconnect a work with the time period in which it was produced and identify it with the cultural and political movements of the time. Rather than asking, "What happened?", the reader asks, "How has the event been interpreted?"
(Source: Purdue Online Writing Lab
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