Raymond Henry Williams fu un accademico, romanziere e critico gallese. I suoi scritti estesi su politica, cultura, mass media e letteratura rappresentano un contributo significativo alla critica marxista della cultura e delle arti. Williams pose le basi per il campo degli studi culturali e l'approccio del materialismo culturale. La sua analisi letteraria e la sua prospettiva critica hanno plasmato discussioni chiave all'interno della New Left e della cultura più ampia.
A compelling thriller, The Volunteers is also an engrossing reminder of the conflict between moral choice and political loyalty, for through his obsessive pursuit of justice Redfern finally encounters the truth about himself.
Brand new collection of the essential essays from one of the founders of cultural studies, Raymond Williams.
A new and fully-updated centenary edition of Raymond Williams's seminal collection of essays on nationhood and cultural identity, Who Speaks for Wales?
Antologie překladů věnovaná novému historismu, kulturnímu materialismu a kulturním studiím – tedy směrům humanitněvědného myšlení, v jejichž rámci se střetávají literární a kulturní teorie, text a jeho kontext, praktické a teoretické aspekty myšlení, konání a řeči nebo oblast umění a ne-umění – uvedené směry nemapuje v celé šíři, ale vybírá klíčové texty jejich protagonistů, a to v rámci hledisek z podtitulu antologie: cirkulace, reprezentace, ideologie. Obsahuje jak výrazně teoreticky zaměřené práce, tak studie věnované konkrétním historickým otázkám. Všechna témata doprovázejí osvětlující úvodní texty a celou knihu uvádí studie přibližující základní pojmy a jejich vývoj v kontextu domácí literárněteoretické tradice. Publikaci připravil 6členný tým překladatelů a autorů z ÚČL AV ČR, Ústavu české literatury a komparatistiky FF UK a Katedry genderových studií FHS UK. Koncepci antologie vypracovali Richard Müller, zabývající se literární komunikací a její medialitou i materialitou, a Josef Šebek, věnující se zprostředkováním mezi textem a sociálním kontextem.
Set against the backdrop of significant historical events from 1968 to 1972, this work features Raymond Williams' insightful commentary from his monthly TV column in The Listener. It captures the era's turbulence, including the Prague Spring, anti-Vietnam protests, and political shifts in the U.S. and Britain. Through these articles, Williams offers a unique perspective on contemporary culture and society, reflecting his evolving personal sociology while engaging with the pressing issues of his time.
One of the major Latin American writers of the twentieth century.
Presents the second volume in the Library of Wales series. When railway signalman Harry Price suddenly suffers a stroke his son Matthew, a lecturer in London, makes a return to the border village of Glynmawr. As they struggle with their memories of social and personal change, a moving portrait of the love between a father and son emerges.
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 apporach 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 peiod in which he wrestled with the concepts of materialism and culture and their interrelationship. Aside from his more directly theoretical texts, however, case-studies of theatrical naturalism, the Bloomsbury group, advertising, science fiction, and the Welsh novel are also included as illustrations of the method at work. Finally, Williams’s identity as an active socialist, rather than simply an academic, is captured by two unambiguously political pieces on the past, present and future of Marxism.
This text 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 prescient. schovat popis
The founding father of cultural theory posits a radical new direction for avant-garde art.
Raymond Williams examines the gradual change which has occurred over the political, economic, and cultural life of the late 21st century, laying special emphasis on the 'creative mind' in relation to our social and cultural thinking.
This is a reisssue of a thriller and social analysis which concerns the dilemma of a young man who discovers that his friend is a spy. The author also wrote" Border Country", "Second Generation", "The Fight for Manod", "The Volunteers" and "People of the Black Mountains".
A collection of the writings of Raymond Williams, who many considered to be the most significant post-war intellectual in Britain. He wrote on diverse subjects, and his books included "Culture and Society", "The Long Revolution", "The Country and the City", "Towards 2000" and "The Black Mountain".
Matthew Price and Peter Owen both have their roots within the borders of Wales. Together they decide to build a new town, Manod, in the depopulated valleys of South Wales. Seemingly a splendid idea, and yet a world of plotting, scheming and resistance lies in store.
Raymond Williams' seminal exploration of the history of meaning of some of the most important words in the English language.
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In Großbritannien haben die Arbeiten des unorthodoxen marxistischen Kultur- und Literaturwissenschaftlers Raymond Williams eine lebhafte Resonanz gefunden; hierzulande ist er noch nicht zureichend beachtet worden. Die vom Herausgeber gemeinsam mit Raymond Williams im Blick auf eine kontinentale Leserschaft getroffene Auswahl aus seinen Arbeiten vereinigt theoretisch-begriffliche Untersuchungen und materiale Analysen, die sich in exemplarischer Weise mit zentralen Fragen der Literatur- und Kulturgeschichte befassen.
As a brilliant survey of English literature in terms of changing attitudes towards country and city, Williams' highly-acclaimed study reveals the shifting images and associations between these two traditional poles of life throughout the major developmental periods of English culture.
Reprint of revised edition of 1968 with a new introduction and bibliography. Dramaturgical analysis of the works of key periods from the Greek to contemporary film. Distributed by Taylor and Francis. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Williams's fascinating investigation into forms of communication as they stood in 1962 - computers, radio, television, printing, photography, film - remains remarkably relevant today. The idea that reality is primary, and that communication of that reality secondary, is debunked - if we take the view that there is life, and then afterwards accounts of it, we degrade art and learning. Communications are, he argues, a major way in which reality is continually formed and changed. This is Williams's compelling introduction to modern means and institutions of communication.
The texts of Lawrence's earliest three plays are accompanied by a discussion of his development as a writer
Acknowledged as perhaps the masterpiece of materialist criticism in the English language, this omnibus ranges over British literary history from George Eliot to George Orwell to inquire about the complex ways economic reality shapes the imagination.
