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Writing Wales in English: After Raymond Williams - Cultural Materialism and the Break-Up of Britain — Cultural Materialism and the Break-Up of Britain
Writing Wales in English: After Raymond Williams - Cultural Materialism and the Break-Up of Britain — Cultural Materialism and the Break-Up of Britain
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Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description
Llyfr sy'n rhoi theori'r awdur a'r nofelydd Raymond Williams ar brawf. Defnyddir ei theori am fateroliaeth ddiwylliannol wrth ystyried cyfres o ddarlleniadau llenyddol a ffilmiau a grewyd yn y blynyddoedd ers marwolaeth Williams ym 1988. Dadleuodd Williams fod gweithiau llenyddol nid yn unig yn adlewyrchu cymdeithas ond hefyd yn achosi newidiadau o fewn cymdeithas. Argraffiad newydd.
Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description
A book which applies the Welsh academic writer and novelist Raymond Williams's theory of cultural materialism to a series of readings of literature and film produced in the years since Williams's death in 1988. Williams argued that literary texts do not only reflect what is happening in a society; they also cause changes to occur. New edition.
Manylion y cynnyrch / Product details
- ISBN 13
- 9780708326640
- Gwales Code
- gwales.com.9780708326640
- Gwerthwr / Vendor
- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
- Long Title
- Writing Wales in English: After Raymond Williams - Cultural Materialism and the Break-Up of Britain — Cultural Materialism and the Break-Up of Britain
- Sub Title
- Cultural Materialism and the Break-Up of Britain
- Awdur / Author
- Dix, Hywel
- Current Price ex VAT
- £9.99
- Current Price inc VAT
- £9.99
- Availability Status (EN)
- Non-Stock Item - Ordered on request
- Availability Status (CY)
- Archebir yn ôl y galw
- Dyddiad cyhoeddi / Publication Date
- 2013-08-23
- Cyhoeddwr / Publisher
- Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru / University of Wales Press
- Media Type (EN)
- Paperback / softback
- Media Type (CY)
- Clawr meddal
- Pages
- 224 pages
- Size
- 138 × 216 mm
- Language Code
- English
- Categori / Category
- CY: Astudiaethau a Thestunau Llenyddol (yn Saesneg) | EN: Literary Studies and Texts (in English)
- Is-gategori / Subcategory
- CY: Astudiaethau Llenyddol (yn Saesneg) | EN: Literary Studies (in English)
Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography
Hywel Dix has taught English in India and Japan, and from 2003 until 2006 he was Raymond Williams Research Fellow at the University of Glamorgan. He is now Lecturer in English Communication at Bournemouth University.
Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review
After Raymond Williams: Cultural Materialism and the Break-Up of Britain has two broad aims. The first is to re-examine the concept of cultural materialism, the term used by Raymond Williams to describe his theory of how writing and other cultural forms relate to general social and historical processes. Using this theory, the second objective is to explore the material ways in which contemporary British writing participates in one particular political process – that of the break-up of Britain. The general trajectory of the book is a matter of superseding Williams: the early chapters are devoted to extrapolating Williams’s materialist theory of cultural forms, while later chapters are concerned with applying this theoretical material to a series of readings of books and films produced in the years since his death in 1988. This volume provides a detailed account of some of the writing produced in Scotland and Wales in the years surrounding political devolution, and also considers the ways in which different subcultural communities use fiction to renegotiate their relationships with the British whole.
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