Culture and Materialism(English, Paperback, Williams Raymond)

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Culture and Materialism(English, Paperback, Williams Raymond) is written by Williams Raymond and published by Verso Books. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1844670600 (ISBN 10) and 9781844670604 (ISBN 13).

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.