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Title: | Raymond Williams: Reading Culture and Community | Contributor(s): | Bourke, Simon (author) | Conferred Date: | 1998 | Copyright Date: | 1997 | Open Access: | Yes | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/10811 | Abstract: | This thesis is a critical account of the work of Raymond Williams. It aims to essay William's problematic engagement with the concepts of "culture" and "community", and to demonstrate the manner in which his reliance on these paradoxical terms is responsible for much of the ambiguity and ambivalence present in his writing. The thesis argues that William's criticism and fiction is consistently embroiled in negotiating contesting definitions of "culture" and "community': definitions which oscillate between affirmations of their radical and counter-hegemonic potential and identifications of their ideological function in the legitimation of dominant power structures. In pursuing this line of argument, this work seeks to locate the tensions within William's discourse on "culture" and "community" in the priority he places on the values of wholeness and homogeny. Such values, despite his critique of the mythical organicism of a pre-industrial past, persistently underwrite his own critical perspective and political ideals. It is this totalising vision and constant desire to connect which Williams struggles to theoretically reconcile with his own account of the historical experience of division and dispossession, and modernity's own insistent narrative of conflict and alienation. | Publication Type: | Thesis Doctoral | Rights Statement: | Copyright 1997 - Simon Bourke | HERDC Category Description: | T2 Thesis - Doctorate by Research |
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