Publisher's Synopsis
The art of writing is in fact largely the perversion of words, and I would even say that the less obvious this perversion is, the more thoroughly it has been done. (George Orwell) Contents: The Textual Kinetics of Orwell's Major Fiction - The Half-Buried Art of Sexual Innuendo. Reading Orwell's Queer Desire(s) - Nineteen Eighty-Four as Conversion Narrative - Orwell's Imperial Bestiary. Animal Agency and Cross-Species Interaction - The Poetics of Etcetera. Orwell's Literary Lists - Orwell's Sublime Perversions
