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-'''Raymond Henry Williams''' ([[31 August]] [[1921]] - [[26 January]] [[1988]]) was a [[Wales|Welsh]] academic, [[novelist]] and [[critic]]. His writings on politics, culture, the mass media and literature reflected his [[Marxist]] outlook. He was an influential figure within the [[New Left]] and in wider culture. Some 750,000 copies of his books have sold in UK editions alone (''[[Politics and Letters]]'', 1979) and there are many translations of his various work.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/{{PAGENAMEE}}] [Apr 2007]+'''Raymond Henry Williams''' ([[31 August]] [[1921]] - [[26 January]] [[1988]]) was a [[Wales|Welsh]] academic, [[novelist]] and [[critic]]. His writings on politics, culture, the mass media and literature reflected his [[Marxist]] outlook. He was an influential figure within the [[New Left]] and in wider culture. Of special interest is his ''[[Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society]]''. He made his reputation with ''[[Culture and Society]]'', published in 1958 and an immediate success.
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-'''''Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society''''' is a book written by the [[Wales|Welsh]] [[Marxist]] [[academic]] [[Raymond Williams]], and published in 1976 by [[Croom Helm]].+[[Category:Canon]]
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-Originally intended to be published along with the author's 1958 work ''[[Culture and Society]]'', this work examines the history of more than a hundred words that are familiar and yet confusing: [[Art]]; [[Bureaucracy]]; [[Culture]]; [[Educated]]; [[Management]]; [[Masses]]; [[Nature]]; [[Originality]]; [[Radical]]; [[Society]]; Welfare; [[Work]]; and many others.+
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-The approach is cultural rather than [[etymology|etymological]]. Sometimes the origins of a word cast light on its meaning, but often one finds that it originally meant something quite different. Or that there has been a fierce political struggle over the 'correct' meaning.+
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-A revised an expanded edition of ''Keywords'' was published by [[Fontana]] in [[1983]]. In [[2005]] [[Blackwell]] published '''''[[New Keywords: A Revised Vocabulary of Culture and Society]]''''', an attempt to update Williams' text. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keywords:A Vocabulary of Culture and Society] [Apr 2007]+

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Raymond Henry Williams (31 August 1921 - 26 January 1988) was a Welsh academic, novelist and critic. His writings on politics, culture, the mass media and literature reflected his Marxist outlook. He was an influential figure within the New Left and in wider culture. Of special interest is his Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society. He made his reputation with Culture and Society, published in 1958 and an immediate success.

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