DOC 3 Chapter 1: Marxism and Literature - Williams
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Can"t be found only in traditions, formations, and institutions. Epochal analysis: culture is a system that determinate dominant features. Elements of the past that remains active as an element of the present. Usually at some distance from the effective dominant culture. New meanings and values, new practices, and new relationships that are continually being created. Not a new phase, an actual alternative. Emergence of elements of a new cultural formation. Emergent culture depends on finding new forms or adaptations of form.
