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Religion becomes an embedded experience, a structure of feeling.
Williams's tool for elucidating these unexpected inter-relationships is the so-called "structure of feeling" of any given period – described by his cultural studies ally, Stuart Hall, as "the way meanings and values were lived in real lives, in actual communities".
What is dramatised in it is a very complex structure of feeling".
I would use the term "structure of feeling", which Raymond Williams coined to describe the rhythms and flux of culture.
The developments in Spain since 2008 amount to what Raymond Williams called a new "structure of feeling", a shift in the lived experience of ordinary people, a new chain of demands distributed through more public, more truly democratic channels.
These days it's hard to open a paper without some slightly whipped-up controversy about Morrissey being a racist, but back in the mid-1980s his lyrics and persona mapped out a structure of feeling that spoke to my own floundering selfhood.
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Into the vacuum pour older structures of feeling.
In the name of clarity, a lot of authors offer what strike me as basically pre-fabricated structures of feeling, leaving no room for the reader to participate in the construction of meaning.
"Dreams of Her Real Self" is ultimately an essay about gender and class, categories that have absorbed Garner for much of her work — precisely, it would seem, because gender and class are not categories so much as structures of feeling, variously argued over, enjoyed, endured, and escaped.
This article adopts the cultural studies perspective that popular culture gives us an important means by which to access the "structures of feeling" that characterise a society at a particular historic juncture: the views held and emotional states experienced by significant amounts of people as evident in disparate forms of cultural production.
He talks about structure, discipline, feeling good about doing what he say he'll do and having that good feeling of accomplishment keep him buoyant.
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