This carefully-structured reader presents a survey of the whole body of Williams' existing work, providing existing readers with a new perspective on his writings, and new readers with the opportunity to explore his ideas in depth.
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Raymond William's' formidable oeuvre helped to create & form the conceptual space of contemporary literary & cultural studies. This detailed Reader introduces Williams, & places his works in a broader national & international context.
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This volume provides a unique insight into the formative influence of one of the century's most distinguished public intellectuals, Raymond Williams (1921-1988). Williams' concern with the dynamics of all forms of writing transformed the ways in which we read the world and its texts and helped to create and form the conceptual space of contemporary literary and cultural studies.
This carefully-structured book presents a survey of the whole body of Williams' work. It provides new readers with the opportunity to explore his ideas in depth while giving existing readers a fresh perspective by viewing his works historically.
Detailed introductions place Williams' work in the broader national and international context of literary and cultural theory. The selections which follow balance the familiar with the unfamiliar, and include extracts from key works such as Culture and Society, The Long Revolution, Modern Tragedy, Orwell, Marxism and Literature and The Politics of Modernism, as well as equally powerful but less known texts like 'Film and the Dramatic Tradition' and seminal essays such as 'Base and Superstructure in Marxist Cultural Theory' and 'The Bloomsbury Fraction'.
The Raymond Williams Reader is essential reading for all those interested in contemporary literary theory and cultural studies.
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bare human being, effective dominant culture, critical structuralism, rural civilisation, civilized individual, cultural materialism, knowable community Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
George Eliot, Bloomsbury Group, Leonard Woolf, Thomas Hardy, Virginia Woolf, New Left, The Bloomsbury Fraction, Clive Bell, Industrial Revolution, Clergyman's Daughter, Lucien Goldmann, New York, Wigan Pier, Lytton Strachey, Labour Party, League of Nations, Middle Ages, Beginning Again, Burmese Days, Felix Holt, French Revolution, Hugo Ball, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Lady Julie, Louis Althusser New!
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- Thomas Hardy of Wessex by Jane Drake on 6 pages
- Marxism and the Philosophy of Language by V. N. Volosinov on 5 pages
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- Key Contemporary Social Theorists by Anthony Elliott on page 271
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