Raymond Williams
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Welsh scholar, author, and Marxist literary critic (1921–1988)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 43
Top works
- The English novel; from Dickens to Lawrence
- GEORGE ORWELL
- キイワード辞典
- The House of Useful Things
- May Day manifesto, 1968
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 83
- Total plays
- 144
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The PHQ-9
· 2001 · cited 39,435x
- A Brief Measure for Assessing Generalized Anxiety Disorder
· 2006 · cited 28,903x
- Learning representations by back-propagating errors
· 1986 · cited 24,348x
- Geant4—a simulation toolkit
· 2003 · cited 21,261x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,612x
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Quotes
- “If from poetry we expect a succession of signals for the release of miscellaneous private emotion we are likely to find Tears, Idle Tears valuable.”
- “We all like to think of ourselves as a standard, and I can see that it is genuinely difficult for the English middle class to suppose that the working class is not desperately anxious to become just like itself. I am afraid this must be unlearned.”
- “Every aspect of personal life is radically affected by the quality of general life, and yet the general life is seen at its most important in completely personal terms.”
- “The gap between our feelings and our social observation is dangerously wide.”
- “Culture is one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language.”
- “It is then in making hope practical, rather than despair convincing, that we must resume and change and extend our campaigns.”
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Key facts
- Born
- Raymond Henry Williams , ( 1921-08-31 ) 31 August 1921, Pandy, Monmouthshire , Wales
- Died
- 26 January 1988 (1988-01-26) (aged 66), Saffron Walden , Essex, England
- Alma mater
- Trinity College, Cambridge
- School or tradition
- Marxist sociology
- Institutions
- University of Cambridge
- Notable students
- Terry Eagleton , David Hare
- Notable ideas
- Cultural materialism , Mobile privatisation
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Encyclopedic overview
Raymond Henry Williams (31 August 1921 – 26 January 1988) 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.
Life
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