Rodden

Rodden is a good-souled historian and a learned one, a man of solid judgment from detail to detail, who doesn't wish to be a fanatic of his own method.

The Politics of Literary Reputation (reviews) 1989

Rodden's account of this extraordinary development, his summaries of intellectual positions, the quotations from commercials and movies, the taxonomic zeal with which he has catalogued the three attitudes of Raymond Williams toward Orwell (favorable, mixed, and hostile, spread over a lifetime) - all this makes for a rich intellectual history, at once broad and arcane, which might suggest that loci of the momentous and volcanic moments and the splendid other terms in Rodden's theoretical apparatus offer a good model for the writing of cultural history.

The Politics of Literary Reputation (reviews) 1989

Q: What is the significance of the names Keith Rodden and Chip Bolin?

Martin: Fast on the track, steadfast in his decision 2007

A: The interim crew chiefs for Kasey Kahne (Rodden) and Matt Kenseth (Bolin) will be wrapping up stints as four-race fill-ins since taking over for their suspended superiors at the Daytona 500.

Martin: Fast on the track, steadfast in his decision 2007

But Rodden warns against "" decommissioning '' the IRA's guns: "" The only safeguard of these talks is to keep these weapons stored somewhere. ''

Will It Play In New York? 2008

John Rodden, a leading Orwell scholar, has produced a new book, "Scenes From an Afterlife" (ISI Books), that, perhaps a bit too elaborately and personally, details how this legacy played itself out.

The Pursuers of Orwell 2003

John Rodden comments that as a result of the "Letters" Orwell not only became known "in New York intellectual circles .... [but] his name became linked in America with anti - and ex-Communist European Socialists" (43).

Where He Wrote: Periodicals and the Essays of George Orwell 1995

This misreading of Orwell's (admittedly idiosyncratic) commitment to Socialism was no doubt reinforced by simplistic anti-Socialist and anti-Communist interpretations of Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four in America, but Rodden suggests that the "London Letters" prepared the ground for these later constructions.

Where He Wrote: Periodicals and the Essays of George Orwell 1995

John Rodden suggests one explanation, plausibly arguing that "these volumes did not alter most critics 'opinions: by 1968 many critics had committed themselves to a certain view of Orwell and they continued to defend entrenched positions" (149).

Where He Wrote: Periodicals and the Essays of George Orwell 1995

Rodden has even dug up a Soviet author who regards Orwell as a friend of the Soviet camp and a foe of tyranny in ...

The Politics of Literary Reputation (reviews) 1989