"...my work since ORIENTALISM has really depended much on Raymond Williams's work."--Edward Said
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"He is not only a Hugo and a Dickens, but also a Galsworthy, a Mann, a Zola, and a Jules Romaines."
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Said received his B.A. from Princeton in 1957 and his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1964. He has been associated with Columbia since 1965, but has held several visiting professorships at distinguished universities. Said's many works of critical theory are distinguished for their intelligent reading of canonical works, and for his astute approach to literature and society, especially in THE WORLD, THE TEXT, AND THE CRITIC and CULTURE AND IMPERIALISM. He is also known for his advocacy of the Palestinian c more...
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11/01/1935 Jerusalem, Israel, Middle East,
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Great book! Highly recomended.