 | Raymond Williams - Literary Criticism - 1975 - 356 pages
...interrelations and through these the real shape of the underlying crisis. It is significant, for example, that the common image of the country is now an image of the past, and the common image of the city an image of the future. That leaves, if we isolate them, an undefined... | |
 | Steven Stoll - History - 1998 - 309 pages
...that we can still reclaim.13 Reclaiming begins with understanding. As Raymond Williams reminds us, "The common image of the country is now an image of the past, and the common image of the city an image of the future. That leaves, if we isolate them, an undefined... | |
 | Rob White, Edward Buscombe - Motion pictures - 2003 - 656 pages
...portrayed as paradisical. For Williams, the rural and the urban have particular temporal configurations: 'the common image of the country is now an image of the past, and the common image of the city an image of the future' (297). This concept is linked to the phenomenon... | |
 | June Yip - History - 2004 - 376 pages
...and the City: Modernization and Changing Apprehensions of Space and Time It is significant . . . that the common image of the country is now an image of the past, and the common image of the city is an image of the future. That leaves, if we isolate them, an undefined... | |
 | Valeria Tinkler-Villani - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 326 pages
...of the relationship between the city and its environments. In 1973, Raymond Williams remarked that "the common image of the country is now an image of the past, and the common image of the city an image of the future".4 Throughout The Country and the ' Robert... | |
 | Shelley Saguaro - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 274 pages
...intransigent distinction between the country and the city in English culture: It is significant [...] that the common image of the country is now an image of the past, and the common image of the city an image of the future. That leaves, if we isolate them, an undefined... | |
 | Jake Kosek - Nature - 2006 - 414 pages
...rethink the divide between the country and the city in England. "It is significant," he writes, that the common image of the country is now an image of the past and the common image of the city is an image of the future. The pull of the idea of the country is... | |
 | Brian McIlroy - History - 2007 - 302 pages
...In writing about the country/city divide, Raymond Williams once observed: "It is significant... that the common image of the country is now an image of the past, and the common image of the city an image of the future. That leaves, if we isolate them, an undefined... | |
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It is significant, for example, that the common image of the country is now an image of the past, and the common image of the city an image of the future. That leaves, if we isolate them, an undefined present. 