![]() Part I, subtitled “left Culturalism” includes five texts published between 19 part II, focusing on “Cultural Materialism” includes another four, spanning the period 1971-1977 and part III, subtitled “(Anti-)Postmodernism”, presents another five texts published between 19.ģIn his concise and informative introduction, Milner explains his principles of periodization, and hence the logic of the volume’s arrangement. For it not only offers an illuminating compendium of Williams’s most important engagements, critical and creative, with SF, utopia and dystopia, but also furnishes us with a heretofore unavailable account of the long-term significance of these frequently spurned genres and modalities for the evolution of the thought of one of the past century’s leading literary and cultural critics.ĢThe volume’s editor, Andrew Milner, has divided Williams’s writings into four parts: the first three are composed of a number of critical essays and interviews, while the fourth includes extracts from two of his rather infrequently read, future-oriented novels, The Volunteers (1978) and The Fight for Manod (1979). ![]() It is also, in my view, something of a treasure. 1 Tenses of Imagination, an anthology of Raymond Williams’s writings on science fiction, utopia and dystopia is the seventh volume in the growing Ralahine Utopian Studies Series. ![]()
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