After Raymond Williams: Cultural Materialism and the Break-Up of Britain - New Updated Edition

ISBN-13: 9780708326640 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 254 str.

Hywel Dix

Opis

Raymond Williams (1921 88) was a Welsh, working-class academic writer and novelist, influential in both the creation of cultural studies as an academic subject and in his attempts to democratize access to education. Here Hywel Dix applies Williams s theory that literary texts not only reflect what is happening in a society but also cause certain changes to occur to literature and film produced in the years since Williams s death, particularly during the years of political devolution in the United Kingdom. Dix explores the ways in which contemporary Welsh and Scottish writing contributes to devolution and how these writers carry out an imaginative critique of the unitary British state."