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The Raymond Williams reader / edited by John Higgins.

By: Williams, Raymond.
Contributor(s): Higgins, John, 1954-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Blackwell readers.Publisher: Oxford ; Malden, Mass. : Blackwell, 2001Description: xv, 304 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0631213104 (hbk. : alk. paper); 9780631213109; 0631213112 (pbk.); 9780631213116.Uniform titles: Works. Selections Subject(s): Culture. Modernism | Criticism | Culture -- Philosophy | Ideology | Literature: history & criticism | Modernism (Aesthetics) | Literary theory | Cultural studiesDDC classification: 306 WIL Summary: This volume offers an insight into the formative influence of the 20th century's most distinguished oppositional public intellectuals, Raymond Williams. This reader presents a survey of the whole body of Williams' existing work,.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [294]-299) and index.

This volume offers an insight into the formative influence of the 20th century's most distinguished oppositional public intellectuals, Raymond Williams. This reader presents a survey of the whole body of Williams' existing work,.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Part I Culture Wars (1954-1961)
  • Introduction
  • 1 Culture is Ordinary (1958)
  • 2 Film and The Dramatic Tradition (1954)
  • 3 The Masses (1958)
  • 4 Individuals and Societies (1961)
  • Part II Countering The Canon (1962-71)
  • Introduction
  • 5 Tragedy and Revolution (1966)
  • 6 Literature and Rural Society (1967)
  • 7 Thomas Hardy and The English Novel (1970)
  • 8 Orwell (1971)
  • Part III Theory and Representation (1972-80)
  • Introduction
  • 9 Base and Superstructure in Marxist Cultural Theory (1973)
  • 10 Television and Representation (1974)
  • 11 Language as Sociality (1977)
  • 12 The Writer: Commitment and Alignment (1980)
  • Part IV Cultural Materialism in Action (1978-1988)
  • Introduction
  • 13 The Bloomsbury Fraction (1978)
  • 14 Crisis in English Studies (1981)
  • 15 Writing, Speech and The "Classical" (1984)
  • 16 Language and The Avant-Garde (1986)
  • Works Cited
  • Index

Author notes provided by Syndetics

John Higgins is an illustrator who made the Kate Greenaway Medal 2015 shortlist along with Marc Olivent for Dark Satanic Mills.

(Bowker Author Biography)