Raymond Williams Books

The celebrated literary critic Raymond Williams, in his own words

One of the major Latin American writers of the twentieth century.

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.

A new and fully-updated centenary edition of Raymond Williams's seminal collection of essays on nationhood and cultural identity, Who Speaks for Wales?

A collection of Raymond Williams's writings on Welsh culture, literature, history and politics. The editor seeks to collect material that has been overlooked, and emphasizes the centrality of his Welshness to Williams's work, and the continuing relevance of his thought for post-devolution Wales. schovat popis

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.

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".

Raymond Williams' seminal exploration of the history of meaning of some of the most important words in the English language.

Explains the 20th century as a stage in a long revolution which began two centuries ago, transforming men and institutions and overturning conventional ideas - political, economic and cultural. He begins by examining creativity and moves on to analyze social concepts.

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.