by Raymond Williams · Flamingo · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780006540212
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«Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society» is Raymond Williams's reference essay, published by Flamingo in paperback (341 pages, English).
Raymond Williams analyzes the history of more than a hundred familiar yet problematic English words, such as culture, society, nature or work. The approach is cultural and political rather than etymological: meanings change over time and reflect ideological tensions and social transformations.
1983 edition, revised and expanded with more than twenty new words; the original work dates from 1976. Includes bibliography.
Work aimed at an academic and professional audience in linguistics, sociology and cultural studies.
Raymond Henry Williams was a Welsh socialist writer, academic, novelist and critic influential within the New Left and in wider culture. His writings on politics, culture, the media and literature contributed to the Marxist critique of culture and the arts. Some 750,000 copies of his books were sold in UK editions alone, and there are many translations available. His work laid foundations for the field of cultural studies and cultural materialism.
