Andrew Milner Bücher

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.

Exploring the interconnectedness of literary and cultural studies, this book provides practical examples to illustrate their mutual relevance. It delves into how these fields inform and enhance one another, emphasizing the importance of understanding literature within its cultural context. Through a series of case studies, the author aims to bridge the gap between these disciplines, showcasing their interdependence and the insights that arise from their combination.

Milne's formally inventive work engages modern politics, challenges language's tyranny and reshapes modern poetry.

A major, groundbreaking intervention into contemporary theoretical debates about SF. It effects a series of vital shifts in SF theory and criticism, away from prescriptively abstract dialectics of cognition and estrangement and towards the empirically grounded understanding of an amalgam of texts, practices and artefacts.

This important volume collects twenty-six essential essays that chart the development of Andrew Milner's distinctively Orwellian cultural materialism.