A lesson from Raymond Williams: the theoretical challenge posed to the left of the XXI century

Abstract

This article focuses on one of the challenges faced by Raymond Williams in a renewed way in his work, that is, the intersection between a formal analysis of literary expressions and the political dimension not only of the work in question but also of the analysis undertaken by him. The sense of apprehending this crossroads is to remind the most recent analyses of politically engaged artistic productions that analytical work cannot presuppose that the pertinence of a socially relevant theme is automatically transmuted into a formulated theoretical problem. Otherwise, as Williams did, it is necessary to convert it into such a problem in order to reach, in fact, the political dimension implied in it.