Approaches to Totalitarianism, Humanism and Arts in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four

A Critical Review of Waddell, Nathan, ed. 2020. The Cambridge Companion to Nineteen Eighty-Four. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. xv+287 pp. ISBN: 1-108-89970-6 Obarrio Moreno, Juan Alfredo. 2021. 1984 (George Orwell) Diálogos entre el derecho y la literatura: Los totalitarismos I. Madrid: Dykinson, S.L. 294 pp. ISBN: 9788413775067

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Ana Valverde González, Universidad de Jaén

Ana Valverde González is a PhD candidate in the English Department of University of Jaén, with an interest in modernist and postmodern literature, comparative literature and literature and journalism. Regarding these topics she has presented in numerous international conferences and she has published in national and international journals, such as Forum for World Literature Studies and Anglica. Journal of English Studies.

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2023-06-29

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Valverde González, A. (2023). Approaches to Totalitarianism, Humanism and Arts in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Critical Review of Waddell, Nathan, ed. 2020. The Cambridge Companion to Nineteen Eighty-Four. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. xv+287 pp. ISBN: 1-108-89970-6 Obarrio Moreno, Juan Alfredo. 2021. 1984 (George Orwell) Diálogos entre el derecho y la literatura: Los totalitarismos I. Madrid: Dykinson, S.L. 294 pp. ISBN: 9788413775067. Atlantis. Journal of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies, 45(1), 231–241. https://doi.org/10.28914/Atlantis-2023-45.1.13

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