{"product_id":"the-raymond-williams-reader-isbn-9780631213116","title":"The Raymond Williams Reader","description":"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.  Preface. \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Culture Wars (1954-1961):\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Culture is Ordinary (1958).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Film and The Dramatic Tradition (1954).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. The Masses (1958).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Individuals and Societies (1961):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Countering The Canon (1962-71):\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Tragedy and Revolution (1966).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Literature and Rural Society (1967).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Thomas Hardy and The English Novel (1970).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Orwell (1971).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Theory and Representation (1972-80):\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Base and Superstructure in Marxist Cultural Theory (1973).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. Television and Representation (1974).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. Language as Sociality (1977).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. The Writer: Commitment and Alignment (1980).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV: Cultural Materialism in Action (1978-1988):\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. The Bloomsbury Fraction (1978).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14. Crisis in English Studies (1981).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15. Writing, Speech and The \"Classical\" (1984).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16. Language and The Avant-Garde (1986).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWorks Cited.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eJohn Higgins\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Cape Town. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eRaymond Williams: Literature, Marxism and Cultural Materialism\u003c\/i\u003e (1999, winner of the University of Cape Town Book Award 2000) and Founding Editor of the South African Journal,\u003ci\u003e Pretexts: Literary and Cultural Studies.\u003c\/i\u003e  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.  \u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDetailed 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 \u003ci\u003eCulture and Society, The Long Revolution, Modern Tragedy, Orwell, Marxism and Literature and The Politics of Modernism,\u003c\/i\u003e 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'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Raymond Williams Reader\u003c\/i\u003e is essential reading for all those interested in contemporary literary theory and cultural studies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990326657253,"sku":"NP9780631213116","price":43.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780631213116.jpg?v=1761787367","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-raymond-williams-reader-isbn-9780631213116","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}