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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Raymond Williams"”.
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Raymond Williams : literature, Marxism and cultural materialism
The guiding principle of this study is that Williams's engagement with English studies cannot be understood in terms purely internal to the discipline of English. As well as writing against the official culture of liberal and conservative literary studies, Williams also wrote in opposition to what …
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Raymond Williams, cultural materialism and the break-up of Britain
This thesis re-examines the writing of Raymond Williams. It has two goals. Firstly, it explores Williams's concept of cultural materialism, which theorises the role played by cultural forms in the creation and contestation of a national political order. Secondly, it extrapolates Williams's implicit …
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small (nation) stories Raymond Williams, documentary and social experience in Wales.
… to my analysis are the theories of Welsh writer Raymond Williams (1921-1988), particularly his ideas on culture and national identity. Williams understood culture as a dynamic process shaped by hegemonic power and examined how realist forms sought to represent lived experience. I consider how his …
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Knowing his place : How Welsh are the "Border" trilogy of novels by Raymond Williams?
… in the years from 1960 to 1979, the novels of Raymond Williams’ ‘Border’ or ‘Welsh’ trilogy explore and reveal his changing feelings for, and responses to, his Welsh border background, both the physical landscape and the community. This dissertation examines how, for Williams, the novels were a …
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George Orwell and Raymond Williams : a comparison of their thoughts on politics, letters and language
… the relationship between George Orwell and Raymond Williams as reflected in their respective writings on politics, letters and language. The study aims to provide a close historical reading of exemplary texts written by Orwell and Williams. This involves: description of the historical …
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Musicology and Mediation: an examination of the cultural materialisms of Raymond Williams and Pierre Bourdieu in relation to the fields of contemporary music and musicology, with a case study of Arvo Part and ECM
… usefulness of the work of Pierre Bourdieu and Raymond Williams for discussions of material mediation in musicology. In part I, I focus on Bourdieu's discussions of cultural production as set out in The Rules of Art and "The Field of Cultural Production", and reconstruct the terms of Williams's …
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Poetry matters: Radical politics in postmodern American poetry
… can be made by employing a flexible version of Raymond Williams’ notion of uneven development, a theory that insists on the synchronic existence of dominant, residual, and emergent cultural elements. As the stylistically and politically diverse work of the six poets—Susan Howe, Robert Grenier, …
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Hacks/Müller: Zur Selbstbestimmung der DDR-Dramatik in Bezug auf die literarische Tradition und sozialistische Gegenwart
… presented in The philosophy of literary form), Raymond Williams (including his cultural materialism), as well as Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno (Critical Theory). Furthermore, the dissertation deals with the idea of metatheatre, and it discusses elements of metadrama (Karin Vieweg-Marks) in …
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Cinema, Culture and the Social Formation: Ideology and Critical Practice
… are discussed in relationship to the work of Raymond Williams. The approach is further analysed in its development at the Center for Contemporary Cultural Studies at the University of Birmingham. The Structuralist approach is traced, in cinema studies, to the work of Christian Metz, and to its …
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Victorian literature and historical time: Genre and historicity after Walter Scott
… M.E. Goodlad, Ruth Livesey, Harry E. Shaw and Raymond Williams have since shown the persistence of British literature's historical focus through a variety of inventive forms. This project explores the modes of temporal experience that different literary genres convey. Focusing on Charles …
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O samba como elemento de identidade brasileira no contexto do ensino de Português do Brasil para estrangeiros
… interculturalidade, discutidos por autores como Raymond Williams e Denys Cuche e Michael Byram. Nossa metodologia segue o formato de análise qualitativa, de cunho exploratório, examinando os elementos relacionados ao samba dispostos nos manuais didáticos, os quais se encontram em forma de textos …
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Marxism After Modernism: Anglo-American Leftist Theorisations of Modernism in the Later Twentieth Century
… Terry Eagleton, Fredric Jameson, Edward Said, Raymond Williams, Rosalind Krauss and others, have attempted to make sense of both literary high modernism and the modernist avant-gardes. The study argues that in the period since the 1960s especially, the Marxian cultural left has helped to …
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Truffaut Un-Sutured : a psychogeographical reading of The 400 Blows
… Truffaut and the Situationists together in what Raymond Williams terms a structure of feeling, the shared ideological context that finally serves to validate a psychogeographical reading of The 400 Blows.
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The politics of poetry in Bosnia and Herzegovina: re-assessing tradition since the late 1980s
… on works by Terry Eagleton, Slavoj Zizek, Raymond Williams, and Alan Sinfield, I intervene in the cultural memory of Bosnia and Herzegovina and establish a tradition of dissidence, which I locate in the marginalised alternative practices of feminists, gays and lesbians, and some members of …
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Ballads, songs and snatches: The appropriation of and responses to folk song and popular music culture in the nineteenth century
… literary critic and to offer an alternative to Raymond Williams' model of ideological development.
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What Are You Crying For?: Renegotiating White Masculine Hegemony through Melodramatic Excess in the 1990s Films of Tom Hanks
… as explored through traditional theorists like Raymond Williams (1977) along with its context in R.W. Connell’s (2005) revised theories of masculinity; and finally the melodramatic mode, performance, and excess through the works of Thomas Elsaesser (1972), Steven Neale (1986), and Linda Williams …
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The tension between political commitment and academic neutrality in the W.E.A.
… M. Mactavish, J. P. M. Millar, G. D. H. Cole and Raymond Williams. This is followed by detailed surveys of three particular areas of work - Residential Adult Education, Literature as a W. E. A. Subject, and Community Education from 1960 to 1980 - each of which illustrates how a basic tension …
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The antihuman unconscious in twenty-first century science fiction cinema: structure of feeling, the political unconscious, and problematising the human in science fiction films produced since 1999
… and annihilation of humanity. Utilising Raymond Williams’ structure of feeling, whereby dominant cultural attitudes are challenged by alternative attitudes, and Fredric Jameson’s political unconscious, in which previously repressed ideologies return to the surface of a text, this thesis …
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Tretas e textões em áudio: historicidades, tecnicidades e sensibilidades de podcasts brasileiros
… e nos aproximamos da perspectiva de autores como Raymond Williams para considerar os podcasts, ao mesmo tempo, enquanto tecnologia e forma cultural. Para compreender a relação entre as tecnologias - cada vez mais presentes nas nossas vidas cotidianas e mediadoras das nossas formas de consumir, das …
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