TY  - BOOK
AU  - Andrew Milner
PY  - 2011
CY  - Oxford, United Kingdom
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783035300154
TI  - Tenses of Imagination
T2  - Raymond Williams on Science Fiction, Utopia and Dystopia
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-0353-0015-4
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1043815
N2  - Raymond Williams was an enormously influential figure in late twentieth-century intellectual life as a novelist, playwright and critic, «the British Sartre», as The Times put it. He was a central inspiration for the early British New Left and a close intellectual supporter of Plaid Cymru. He is widely acknowledged as one of the «founding fathers» of cultural studies, who established «cultural materialism» as a new paradigm for work in both literary and cultural studies. There is a substantial secondary literature on Williams, which treats his life and work in each of these respects. But none of it makes much of his enduring contribution to utopian studies and science fiction studies. This volume brings together a complete collection of Williams’s critical essays on science fiction and futurology, utopia, and dystopia, in literature, film, television, and politics, and with extracts from his two future novels, The Volunteers (1978) and The Fight for Manod (1979).  Both the collection as a whole and the individual readings are accompanied by introductory essays written by Andrew Milner.
KW  - Cultural materialism, Terror, Science Fiction, Nineteen eighty four
LA  - English
ER  -