Looking for texts on cultural materialism

[Robert Nunn]

The best place to start would be to read Raymond Williams, whose work has
animated this approach to culture. I suggest beginning with his classic
_Culture and Society 1780-1950_ (Penguin 1963). Others: _Culture_; Drama
>From Ibsen to Brecht_; Television: Technology and Cultural Form_; Marxism
and Literature_; and the indispensible _Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture
and Society_.

Robert Nunn
Theatre and Dramatic Literature Programme
Brock University
St. Catharines, ON L2S 3A1
Tel. (905) 688-5550 ex 3213
Fax. (905) 688-2789
email: rnunn at spartan.ac.BrockU.ca

On Sat, 14 Sep 1996, David Akin wrote:

> I'm in the midst of reading the 1985 collection of essays edited by Jonathan
> Dollimore and Alan Sinfield called Political Shakespeare. The collection is
> subtitled "New essays in cultural materialism". I find the methodology and
> politics of the cultural materialist attractive but before I embrace it, I
> should like to do some more reading about the theory.
> Can anyone direct me to some of the central texts of the cultural
> materialist and his/her detractors, particularly as it relates to theatre
> and performance?
>
> David Akin                      jdakin at foxnet.net
> Thunder Bay, Ontario            CANADA
>