Raymond Williams' prolific output is increasingly recognised as the most influential body of work on literary and cultural studies in the past fifty years. This book provides the most comprehensive study to date of the theoretical and historical context of Williams' thinking on literature, politics
Raymond Williams
β Scribed by Fred Inglis
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 345
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
In his life, Raymond Williams played many parts: child of the Black Mountains, inspirational adult lecturer, Cambridge professor, folk hero and guru of the left. In this first major biography, now in paperback for the first time, Fred Inglis has spoken to those who knew this complex and charismatic man at every stage of his life, from his boyhood in the Welsh border country to his brief years of retirement.
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