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.
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.
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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.
