WILLIAMS RAYMOND

(P/B) CULTURE AND MATERIALISM
A comprehensive introduction to the work of one of the outstanding intellectuals of the twentieth century Raymond Williams is a towering presence in cultural studies, most importantly as the founder of the approach that has come to be known as "cultural materialism." Yet Williams's method was always open-ended and fluid, and this volume collects together his most significant work from over a twenty-year period in which he wrestled with the concepts of materialism and culture and their interrelationship. Aside from his more directly theoret...
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(P/B) TELEVISION
Television: Technology and Cultural Form was first published in 1974, long before the dawn of multi-channel TV, or the reality and celebrity shows that now pack the schedules. Yet Williams' analysis of television's history, its institutions, programmes and practices, and its future prospects, remains remarkably prescient. Williams stresses the importance of technology in shaping the cultural form of television, while always resisting the determinism of McLuhan's dictum that 'the medium is the message'. If the medium really is the message,...
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Ο Τ. Σ. ΕΛΙΟΤ ΩΣ ΚΡΙΤΙΚΟΣ ΤΗΣ ΚΟΥΛΤΟΥΡΑΣ
Το κείμενο που παρουσιάζουμε είναι ένα κεφάλαιο από το βιβλίο του Raymont Williams Culture and Society ( 1958 ), ένα πανόραμα των μετασχηματισμών στο ιδεολογικοκοινωνικό συνάρθρωμα "κουλτούρα-κοινωνία" κατά την ιστορική περίοδο 1780 - 1950. Πρόκειται για το τρίτο κεφάλαιο του τρίτου μέρους, το οποίο αποτελεί μια περιεκτική έκθεση της κριτικής που ασκεί ο Έλιοτ στον σύγχρονο δυτικό πολιτισμό. Η κριτική αυτή, καθώς και η αντικριτική που μπορεί να της ασκηθεί, έχει επανέλθει με διάφορες μορφές κατά καιρούς στο προσκήνιο. Στη χώρα μας μάλιστα ...
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(P/B) CULTURE AND POLITICS
Brand new collection of essays from one of the founders of cultural studies, Raymond Williams Raymond Williams was a pioneering scholar of culture and society, and one of the outstanding intellectuals of the twentieth century. In this, a collection of difficult to find essays, some of which are published for the first time, Williams emerges as not only one of the great writers of materialist criticism, but also a thoroughly engaged political writer. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) POLITICS AND LETTERS
Raymond Williams made a central contribution to the intellectual culture of the Left in the English-speaking world. He was also one of the key figures in the foundation of cultural studies in Britain, which turned critical skills honed on textual analysis to the examination of structures and forms of resistance apparent in everyday life. Politics and Letters is a volume of interviews with Williams, conducted by New Left Review, designed to bring into clear focus the major theoretical and political issues posed by his work. Introduced by wr...
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(P/B) POLITICS OF MODERNISM
The founding father of cultural theory posits a radical new direction for avant-garde art. Considered to be the founding father of British cultural theory, Williams was concerned throughout his life to apply a materialist and socialist analysis to all forms of culture, defined generously and inclusively as "structures of feeling." In this major work, Williams applies himself to the problem of modernism. Rejecting stereotypes and simplifications, he is especially preoccupied with the ambivalent relationship between revolutionary socialist p...
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(P/B) KEYWORDS
KEYWORDS is a unique exploration of the actual language of cultural transformation. Neither a defining dictionary nor a specialist glossary, it is the record of an inquiry into a vocabulary: a shared body of words and meanings concerned with the practices and institutions described as 'culture' and 'society.' In a series of connecting essays, Raymond Williams investigates how these 'keywords' have been formed, altered, redefined, influenced, modified, confused and reinforced as the historical contexts in which they were applied changed to ...
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(P/B) RESOURCES OF HOPE
Raymond Williams possessed unique authority as Britain's foremost cultural theorist and public intellectual. Informed by an unparalleled range of reference and the resources of deep personal experience, his life's work represents a patient, exemplary commitment to the building of a socialist future. This book brings together important early writings including "Culture is Ordinary," "The British Left," "Welsh Culture" and "Why Do I Demonstrate?" with major essays and talks of the last decade. It includes work on such central themes as the n...
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(P/B) MODERN TRAGEDY (1966)

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