About Raymond Williams

Abstract

Williams brought together what modern thought has separated in the relation between culture and society. His use of literary texts to exemplify the concept of knowable community as well as the concept of structure of feeling is one of his achievements. To read novels as knowable communities comprises a project of cultural construction based on the refusal to consider the separation between culture and society; it is not to hesitate between tenses and to give a future to the imagination of the authors and of the readers.