...Caroline Levine This article focuses on two of the most enduring terms in Raymond Williams’s Marxism and Literature : “dominant, residual, emergent” and “structures of feeling.” Williams’s theory of history as mixtures and layers of different temporal moments is not only alive and well in the field...

... the essay’s titular phrase, “Every Turk is born a soldier.” This issue presents a collection of essays that illustrate infrastructures, politics, affects, and structures of feeling that produce social life through the often-intertwined effects that pull people together while simultaneously pushing them...

... of community across social borders.2 This structure of feeling, I suggest, has been dismissed because it frequently figures the cosmopolitan subject as female. As a discourse I thank Jennifer Williams, whose invitation to join a panel at the Modern Language Association in 2007 led to this essay...

... structure of feeling organized around a simultaneity of sen- sibility, a disparity in awareness and motivation. Its structure brought to light a fundamental ambivalence that many members of the Left sense as they respond to the withdrawing state’s summoning of solidaristic man. Angelo recognized...

... they are embryonic and incompletely articulated, but also because they cannot be articulated within the resurgent American dream of the twenty-first century. Structures of feeling evoke “just those experiences to which the fixed forms do not speak at all...

..., interaction rituals, and, crucially for Berlant, affective attachments give discursive and narrative form to a self-defeating compulsion to keep on keeping on with dreams of “the good life” and that treadmill structure of feeling, or cruel optimism . We observe that failure and hope are not opposites...

..., as it were. That we do so is a measure of our distance from the warrior ethic, or Flo- rentine virtue, or absolute divinity, or ritual scarification, or ordinary injury, or the structure of feeling behind terrorism. To classify these as forms of violence...

... that something intrinsic to this problem makes it resist symbolization. In this founding rhetorical situation, the compassion, curios- ity, and reticence that the onlookers share refl ect a preexisting structure of feeling that Du Bois takes...

... a society built to confer and confirm that superiority. Second, by whiteness I mean to also signal “a structure of feeling” in which those marked as white share in and benefit from the conditions that produce societal advantages for white people. Additionally, those not marked as white are positioned...

... of the past versus compensatory musealization) and pushed in a different direction, one that does 33 Public Culture not rely on a discourse of loss and that accepts the fundamental shift in structures of feeling...

... the female characters as stand-ins for the male, this is because Rushdie failed to recognize that “gender relations” are dwarfed by “a much larger structure of feeling and a much more complex political grid” (152)-the structure and grid...

..., and idioms of power of particular societies, including metropolitan ones. If “the postcolony is a world of anxious virility - hostile to continence, fru- gality and sobriety” (13), how does this structure of feeling relate to, and differ from, the apprehensive hyper-masculinization of politics...

... emphasizes the “remarkable history of an essential unity in structures of feeling” (256), “the common civilizational ethos,” “the very real civilizational unity of our peoples” (256). “Multiplicity of languages is the fundamental characteristic of this civiliza- tion, this nation, this literature...

... them politically with Black structures of feeling and to redefine the meaning of Britishness. The presence of Blacks in Britain, therefore, indicates not only specific ways in which Britishness modifies their identities, but also indicates the ways in which they transform, invert...

.... Hedrick, Donald, and Bryan Reynolds. 2000. Shakespeare without Class: Misap- propriations of Cultural Capital. New York: Palgrave. Hendler, Glenn. 2001. Public Sentiments: Structures of Feeling in Nineteenth- Century American Literature...

... that the claim to merit at IIT Madras is only about the institutional production of Brahminness. While it is certainly the case that a regional history of caste formation has given merit a uniquely Brahminical inflection, other examples reveal a structure of feeling through which merit is increasingly mapped...

... as a viable utopian project. It meant the exhaustion of utopian consciousness more generally and gave rise to a more explicitly hedonistic structure of feeling, however nascent and lacking opportunity for expression in China’s preconsumer- ist...

... of inherited identities and solidarities in need of defense. Usually this means nations and cultural identities imagined on the model of nations; some- times it means religions, civilizations, or other structures of identity presented by their advocates as received rather than created. The social imaginary...

... commonality, a certain structure of feeling that has rearticulated some- thing that is invariably “Japanese” (as far as the site of production and the mani- fested cultural codes are concerned) into something that one might call an “Asian consciousness” or “Asiatic imaginary.” This culturalist regionalism...

... Reader (New York: Penguin Books, 1993), x. 6. Raymond Williams, “Structures of Feeling,” in Marxism and Literature (New York: Oxford University Press, 1977), 28 – 135. In his study of culture, Williams uses this concept to characterize the lived experience of the quality of life at a particular...