false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172521697m/184049.jpg 184049 1 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. 177876 26 1 2001 The Raymond Williams Reader (Blackwell Readers) total:3|5:1|4:2| 3 13 4 0 184049 0631213112 9780631213116 3 0 4.33 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172521697m/184049.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/184049.The_Raymond_Williams_Reader 4 0 false Sun Sep 20 07:14:56 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 20 07:14:56 -0700 2009 184049 0631213112 9780631213116 3 0 4.33 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172521697m/184049.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/184049.The_Raymond_Williams_Reader 0 0 false Thu Jul 23 18:49:52 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 23 18:49:52 -0700 2009 184049 0631213112 9780631213116 3 0 4.33 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172521697m/184049.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/184049.The_Raymond_Williams_Reader 4 0 false Sun Jan 27 01:29:18 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 27 01:29:18 -0800 2008 184049 0631213112 9780631213116 3 0 4.33 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172521697m/184049.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/184049.The_Raymond_Williams_Reader 5 0 false Tue Dec 18 18:47:12 -0800 2007 Tue Dec 18 18:47:12 -0800 2007 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=184049