A Investigation Of Raymond Williams Structure Of Feelings

The structure of feelings is the original term and the core concept proposed by Williams. It is also an important part of his cultural materialism, which has not been paid enough attention to. An important reason for this is that the concept of the category itself is ambiguous. On the one hand, Williams’s own empirical background of the severe constraints, on the other hand, is also due to the concept itself has experienced many of his own repair. Williams often put it with the social character, cultural patterns, cultural hegemony and other areas to place together, from which to extract some of the essence of things. This makes the structure of feeling concept itself into a state of all powerful, all encompassing, on the other hand also makes it tend to a negative face to appear in front of the world. The result is that we are more likely to say that the feeling is nothing, it is difficult to say what it is. To investigate this concept, only when it is placed back to the context in which it is generated to carry on the historical reading, reveals its occurrence, evolution and the final maturity of the process, from the simple literature and art development to the field of culture.This paper also examines Williams’s a series of specific criticism practice. He found the critical revolutionary position from the change of modern tragedy concept, and found that the party faced the reaction of the industrial society and the class conflict in the scene of the industrial novel in nineteenth Century.Finally, the Williams put forth in his later years residual culture, dominant culture, the triple structure of the emerging culture, and he of classical Marxist theory foundation and superstructure relationship washback conducted in-depth analysis, from the narration structure of feeling concept on today’s culture of universal value.