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120 TEASER | Raymond Williams on Literature and Cultural Materialism

September 16, 2025 • Lillian Cicerchia, Owen Glyn-Williams, Gil Morejón, and William Paris • Season 1 • Episode 120

In this episode, we discuss the literary and cultural theories of Raymond Williams. Famous for classic works of literary analysis like The City and the Country and concepts like ‘structures of feeling’, we join Williams in analyzing how our emotions, impulses, and tone in poetry and novels evolve in relation to economic development. Many structures of feeling today are built on exploitation, but maybe that’s not the end of the story.

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References:

Raymond Williams, Marxism and Literature (Oxford University Press, 1977).

Raymond Williams, The Country and the City (Penguin Random House Vintage Classics, 2016).

Music:

“Vintage Memories” by Schematist | schematist.bandcamp.com

“My Space” by Overu | https://get.slip.stream/KqmvAN