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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780927803321

Titolo

About Raymond Williams / / edited by Monika Seidl, Roman Horak, and Lawrence Grossberg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2010

ISBN

1-135-26307-8

1-135-26308-6

1-282-97499-8

9786612974991

0-203-86515-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (208 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

GrossbergLawrence

HorakRoman

SeidlMonika

Disciplina

828.91409

Soggetti

Criticism - Great Britain - History - 20th century

Literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc

Mass media criticism - Great Britain

Historical materialism

Culture - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1 Raymond Williams - towards cultural materialism: an introduction; Chapter 2 Raymond Williams and the absent modernity; Chapter 3 'All forms of signi.cation'; Chapter 4 The perspectives of radical democracy: Raymond Williams' work and its significance for a critical social theory; Chapter 5 The 1968 May Day Manifesto; Chapter 6 Fellow-travellers at the conjunction: Williams and educational communicators; Chapter 7 The pedagogy of cultural materialism: Paulo Freire and Raymond Williams

Chapter 8 Raymond Williams and online video: the tragedy of technologyChapter 9 Cultural studies and common culture: Raymond Williams' approach towards media cultural studies; Chapter 10 'Even



the dead will not be safe': on dis(re)membering Williams; Chapter 11 Raymond Williams in the South Atlantic; Chapter 12 Williams and ecology; Chapter 13 Cultural studies is ordinary; Chapter 14 Raymond Williams: reading novels as knowable communities; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

About Raymond Williams represents the overdue critical acclaim of Williams' lasting influence and unbroken repercussions in critical thought. His writings have effectively shaped the ways in which people understand the complexity of the notion of 'culture' and many of the ways it has been taken up in scholarly practice.