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Direct linkLöfgren, Ingeborg – Policy Futures in Education, 2022
This article explores what we can learn about truth and meaning from fiction, through a reading of George Orwell's (Eric Blair's) dystopic novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four" (1949) in the light of philosopher Stanley Cavell's notion of "lived skepticism." The article suggests that we can conceive of the novel as portraying…
Descriptors: Fiction, Authoritarianism, Critical Reading, Criticism
