This paper presents a close reading of the major critical standpoints of Raymond Williams, who as a Marxist thinker taught at Cambridge and influenced the critical scene of the late seventies. Williams is unanimously referred to as the intellectual origin for the rise of Cultural Materialism as a critical approach to reading literary and artistic works. Focusing on Power relations and the dominant ideology of historical phases, Williams sought to categories the discourses of power into three major branches that are the dominant, the emergent, and the residual.
