Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society Written By Raymond Williams

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First published in 1976, Raymond Williams' highly acclaimed Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society is a collection of lively essays on words that are critical to understanding the modern world. In these essays, Williams, a renowned cultural critic, demonstrates how these key words takeon new meanings and how these changes reflect the political bent and values of our past and current society. He chose words both essential and intangible--words like nature, underprivileged, industry, liberal, violence, to name a few--and, by tracing their etymology and evolution, grounds them in awider political and cultural framework. The result is an illuminating account of the central vocabulary of ideological debate in English in the modern period.This edition features a new original foreword by Colin MacCabe, Distinguished Professor of English and Literature, University of Pittsburgh, that reflects on the significance of Williams' life and work. Keywords remains as relevant today as it was

Detail Book Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society

Author : Raymond Williams

Pages : 312 pages

Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA

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ISBN-10 : 0199393214

ISBN-13 : 9780199393213