ce, a "dying culture" is impossible since a form of
culture is always existent (Williams in Gray et al., 1993: 9). Williams
criticises the privileged "chained library", in other words the labelling
of education, and stresses that "to reduce experience to literary evidence
alone" is inadequate since individual social experience contributes
essentially to the process of obtaining historical experience (Williams,
1966: 253). Williams agrees "that society is poor indeed if it has nothing
to live by but its own immediate and contemporary experience" (Williams,
For him however, the "the most ordinary common
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