
Utopian Dreams against the Grain by Samuel Day Fassbinder
We are at once in a compound crisis and an era of what Cornelius Castoriadis called “the retreat from autonomy.” It will be necessary to change, quite radically, the social imaginary so as to provoke a new Age of Utopian Dreaming in which the possibility of a better world can once again appear on the horizon. Utopian Dreams against the Grain lays out the capitalist social imaginary, the utopian task at hand, the utopian dream’s background in literary thought, and – in the conclusion – a practical discussion of climate change and of how transformative thinking can help mitigate the situation to come.-
Shakespeare's "Hamlet"
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Emily Bronte's "Wuthering Heights"
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Woolf's "To the Lighthouse"
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Eliot's "Waste Land"
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Shakespeare's "Othello"
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Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins
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Stoppard's "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead"
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Jane Austen's "Mansfield Park"
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Shakespeare's History Plays
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Milton's "Paradise Lost"
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Poetry of William Wordsworth
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Shakespeare's "King Richard II"
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Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"
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Tennyson
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Shakespeare's "King Lear"
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Marlowe's "Doctor Faustus"
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Dickens' "Great Expectations"
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Hardy's "Tess of the D'Urbervilles"
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George Eliot's "Mill on the Floss"
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Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre"
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Austen's "Emma" and "Persuasion"
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Shakespeare's "Troilus and Cressida"
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Poetry of W.B. Yeats
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Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra"
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Shakespeare's "Winter's Tale"
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Elizabeth Bowen
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Shakespeare's "As You Like it"
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Hardy's "Return of the Native"
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Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing"
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Poetry of Alexander Pope
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Shakespeare's "Measure for Measure"
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The Poetry of William Blake
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Demenageries
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Destruction in the Performative
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Replacement
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The Montage Principle
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Gender across Media Landscapes
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Evolution and Popular Narrative
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Sexuality and Eroticism in a Post-pandemic World
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Refresh the Book
Samuel Day Fassbinder received his Ph.D. in Communication from The Ohio State University, his M.A. in English from Sonoma State University, and his B.A. in Literature from the University of California at Santa Cruz. He teaches English and public speaking online with DeVry University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9789004755505 |
| ISBN 10 | 9004755500 |
| Title | Utopian Dreams against the Grain |
| Author | Samuel Day Fassbinder |
| Series | Critical Studies |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Brill |
| Year published | 2026-04-08 |
| Number of pages | 216 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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