Culture and MaterialismVerso Books, 13.10.2020 - 320 Seiten Raymond Williams is a towering presence in cultural studies, most importantly as the founder of the apporach that has come to be known as “cultural materialism.” Yet Williams’s method was always open-ended and fluid, and this volume collects together his most significant work from over a twenty-year peiod in which he wrestled with the concepts of materialism and culture and their interrelationship. Aside from his more directly theoretical texts, however, case-studies of theatrical naturalism, the Bloomsbury group, advertising, science fiction, and the Welsh novel are also included as illustrations of the method at work. Finally, Williams’s identity as an active socialist, rather than simply an academic, is captured by two unambiguously political pieces on the past, present and future of Marxism. |
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... major works, augmenting them with more detailed studies or extending their methods into new areas of research, these essays are a crucial component of Williams's writing as a whole, and it was in order to make them available to the ...
... major works, augmenting them with more detailed studies or extending their methods into new areas of research, these essays are a crucial component of Williams's writing as a whole, and it was in order to make them available to the ...
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... major continental tradition, born in Bucharest and moving to Vienna, to Geneva, to Brussels, to Paris, had at once this separated mobility and this impersonality: very clearly in the style of his work. But it was then interesting to me ...
... major continental tradition, born in Bucharest and moving to Vienna, to Geneva, to Brussels, to Paris, had at once this separated mobility and this impersonality: very clearly in the style of his work. But it was then interesting to me ...
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... major element of these conditions, the nature of the reading public. The particular interpretation then given was of course one of cultural decline; the radical isolation of the critical minority was in that sense both starting-point ...
... major element of these conditions, the nature of the reading public. The particular interpretation then given was of course one of cultural decline; the radical isolation of the critical minority was in that sense both starting-point ...
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... major insights of History and Class-Consciousness, which he has now partly disavowed, do not get translated into critical practice, and certain cruder operations—essentially still those of base and superstructure—keep reappearing. I ...
... major insights of History and Class-Consciousness, which he has now partly disavowed, do not get translated into critical practice, and certain cruder operations—essentially still those of base and superstructure—keep reappearing. I ...
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... major individual talents, and indeed I believe that there are discoverable specific reasons, of a social kind, in the immediate histories of writers, why this imaginative alternative was sought. But I am also sure that these creative ...
... major individual talents, and indeed I believe that there are discoverable specific reasons, of a social kind, in the immediate histories of writers, why this imaginative alternative was sought. But I am also sure that these creative ...
Inhalt
Ideas of Nature | |
Social Darwinism | |
Problems of Materialism | |
the Case | |
The Bloomsbury Fraction | |
the Magic System | |
Utopia and Science Fiction | |
The Welsh Industrial Novel | |
Notes on Marxism in Britain Since 1945 | |
Beyond Actually Existing Socialism | |
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