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Thou art unreal, my ideal: Nostalgia as ideology in the novels of Evelyn Waugh, Aldous Huxley, and George Orwell.

机译:你是虚幻的,我的理想:伊夫林·沃,艾尔杜斯·赫x黎和乔治·奥威尔小说中的怀旧意识形态。

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The satirical novels of Evelyn Waugh, Aldous Huxley and George Orwell share a sense of nostalgia for an imagined past as well as a fatalistic and entropic view of the future. Rather than advocating a wholesale reformation of society, these novels instead argue in favor of the status quo and regard change as counterproductive. In this way, the novels reflect certain ideologies strongly held in England during the transition from the colonial to the postcolonial period. Through an examination of their treatment of class relations, social norms and outside influences, this study argues that Waugh, Huxley and Orwell maintained the superiority of English culture and civilization instead of questioning it, and focused their satire on elements they believed threatened this established hegemony. In doing so, they each used a nostalgic and idealized portrait of English society to challenge elements of their present that they found unsatisfactory.;The production of the idealized past challenges commonly held perceptions of the way these satires function. They are not critiques of the establishment but rather supporters of it; they call for a static society rather than a dynamic one. Evelyn Waugh’s novels Decline and Fall and Black Mischief support a presumed English ideology over that of its colonial peripheries. Aldous Huxley’s novels Brave New World, Ape and Essence, and Island deal with questions of overpopulation and stereotyped attributes of perceived non-intellectuals in their relationship to Huxley’s preferred class structure. George Orwell’s novels Burmese Days, Coming Up For Air, Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm each presuppose an idyllic but nonexistent English society and use this construct to critique the future of Englishness.
机译:伊夫琳·沃(Evelyn Waugh),阿尔多斯·赫well黎(Aldous Huxley)和乔治·奥威尔(George Orwell)的讽刺小说都怀有怀旧之情,既有想象中的过去,又有宿命论和对未来的熵观。这些小说并没有提倡社会的全面改革,而是主张现状,并认为变革适得其反。这样,小说反映了从殖民地到后殖民时期过渡期间在英国强烈持有的某些意识形态。通过研究他们对阶级关系,社会规范和外部影响的处理,该研究认为沃,赫x黎和奥威尔保持了英国文化和文明的优越性,而不是质疑它,并将讽刺集中在他们认为威胁到这种霸权的要素上。在这样做的过程中,他们各自使用怀旧和理想化的英国社会肖像来挑战他们认为不满意的当下要素。;理想化的过去挑战的产生通常使人们对这些讽刺作品的运作方式持有看法。他们不是对机构的批评,而是对机构的支持。他们呼吁建立一个静态的社会,而不是一个动态的社会。伊夫琳·沃(Evelyn Waugh)的小说 Decline and Fall Black Mischief 支持一种假定的英国意识形态,而不是其殖民地周边地区的意识形态。奥尔德斯·赫x黎(Aldous Huxley)的小说《勇敢的新世界》,《猿与本质》 Island 讨论了人口过剩和感知到的非智能化的刻板印象属性,这些问题与赫Hu黎偏爱的阶级结构有关。乔治·奥威尔(George Orwell)的小说缅甸的日子, 乔治·奥威尔的小说缅甸的日子, 返回首页。

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  • 作者

    Showers, Zachary E.;

  • 作者单位

    The University of Alabama.;

  • 授予单位 The University of Alabama.;
  • 学科 Literature English.
  • 学位 Ph.D.
  • 年度 2010
  • 页码 192 p.
  • 总页数 192
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
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