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The Raymond Williams Reader John Higgins

The Raymond Williams Reader By John Higgins

The Raymond Williams Reader by John Higgins

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Summary

* Provides an unparalleled insight into the influence of one of the centurya s exemplary public intellectuals. * Includes a detailed historical and theoretical introduction. * Incorporates extracts from key works as well as less well--known texts and seminal essays. .

The Raymond Williams Reader Summary

The Raymond Williams Reader by John Higgins

This carefully--structured reader presents a survey of the whole body of Williamsa existing work, providing existing readers with a new perspective on his writings, and new readers with the opportunity to explore his ideas in depth.

About John Higgins

John Higgins is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Cape Town. He is the author of Raymond Williams: Literature, Marxism and Cultural Materialism (1999, winner of the University of Cape Town Book Award 2000) and Founding Editor of the South African Journal, Pretexts: Literary and Cultural Studies.

Table of Contents

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.

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GOR002717421
9780631213116
0631213112
The Raymond Williams Reader by John Higgins
John Higgins
Wiley Blackwell Readers
Used - Very Good
Paperback
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
2000-12-27
324
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