Tenses of Imagination - Raymond Williams on Science Fiction, Utopia and Dystopia (Paperback, New edition)

Raymond Williams was an enormously influential figure in late twentieth-century intellectual life as a novelist, playwright and critic, "the British Sartre", as The Times put it. He was a central inspiration for the early British New Left and a close intellectual supporter of Plaid Cymru. He is widely acknowledged as one of the "founding fathers" of cultural studies, who established "cultural materialism" as a new paradigm for work in both literary and cultural studies. There is a substantial secondary literature on Williams, which treats his life and work in each of these respects. But none of it makes much of his enduring contribution to utopian studies and science fiction studies. This volume brings together a complete collection of Williams's critical essays on science fiction and futurology, utopia, and dystopia, in literature, film, television, and politics, and with extracts from his two future novels, The Volunteers (1978) and The Fight for Manod (1979). Both the collection as a whole and the individual readings are accompanied by introductory essays written by Andrew Milner.

General

Imprint:	Verlag Peter Lang
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Ralahine Utopian Studies, 7
Release date:	February 2010
First published:	2010
Editors:	Andrew Milner
Dimensions:	220 x 150 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	248
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-911826-7
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > General Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Promotions
LSN:	3-03-911826-9
Barcode:	9783039118267

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