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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