A review by kylefwill
Marxism and Literature by Raymond Williams

5.0

"The mistake, as so often, is in taking terms of analysis as terms of substance. Thus we speak of a world-view or of a prevailing ideology or of a class outlook, often with adequate evidence, but in this regular slide towards a past tense and a fixed form suppose, or even do not know that we have to suppose, that these exist ad are lived specifically and definitely, in singular and developing forms. Perhaps the dead can be reduced to fixed forms, though their surviving records are against it."