Many articles and monographs have been produced to explore Raymond Williams’s cultural theories,Marxist thoughts and literary criticism.This paper is to look at another important aspect of Williams,that is,Williams’s fictional writings.Particularly,it is to sort out a recurrent theme throughout Williams’s seven published novels,the illegitimacy problem and the problematic fatherhood.It can be inferred that the ambiguity of fatherhood has not only become a personal complex for Williams,but also has served as a trope for the delivery of his ideas about the individual and the society,Welshness and nationalism.The multi-layered connotations of this motif may well be analyzed according to the following aspects:Williams’s personal experiences,the historical actualities,the individual psychology in social relationships,and lastly the national discrepancy between England and Wales.
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