Tenses of Imagination
Tenses of Imagination Raymond Williams was an enormously influential figure in late twentieth-century intellectual life as a novelist, playwright and critic, the British Sartre, as The Times put it.…
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Tenses of Imagination
Raymond Williams was an enormously influential figure in late twentieth-century intellectual life as a novelist, playwright and critic, the British Sartre, as The Times put it. He is widely acknowledged as one of the founding fathers of cultural studies, who established cultural materialism as a new paradigm for work in both literary and cultural studies. He was a central inspiration for the early British New Left and a close intellectual supporter of Plaid Cymru.
But none of it makes much of his enduring contribution to utopian studies and science fiction studies. There is a substantial secondary literature on Williams, which treats his life and work in each of these respects. This volume brings together a complete collection of Williams's critical essays on science fiction and futurology, utopia, and dystopia, in literature, film, television, and politics, and with extracts