Utopian thoughts have precedence as old as human history. Islamic civilization utopian thought owes its progress to the Farabi&rsquos utopian concept and expansion and academic study of utopian term in west owes to the Thomas More Utopia book. Theoretically, Farabi&rsquos utopian thoughts influenced development of utopian system in both Islam and Western civilizations. By emphasis on Farabi&rsq...

Aldous Huxley's Brave New World is a famous dystopia, frequently called upon in public discussions about new biotechnology. It is less well known that 30 years later Huxley also wrote a utopian novel, called Island. This paper will discuss both novels focussing especially on the role of psychopharmacological substances. If we see fiction as a way of imagining what the world could look like, the...

Utopia and satire would seem, superficially at least, to be closely related genres. They both reject present forms of human society, and they sometimes make use of similar devices (e. g., the voyage, the stranger's eye). They would seem to differ only in emphasis. Whereas the satirist focuses on criticism, the utopian writer offers an ideal alternative. The implicit social censure embedded in u...

Many thanks to Ruy Blanes and Bjørn Enge Bertelsen for their response my critique (Bråten 2022a) of special section on ‘Utopian Confluences’ (especially, 2021; 2021), Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale publishing the exchange. The theoretical questions that arise from our diverging stances are, hopefully, general interest. While I take (hereafter B&B) argue an epistemologically all-i...

There is something structurally amiss in a culture that only values women for their capacity to bear child which reflected misrepresentations literature confined stereotypes creates an endless room debate as what future store particularly post-humanist literature. This paper addresses how female fertility framed the texts of Margaret Atwood- The Handmaid’s Tale and Testaments (dystopian) Charlo...

utopian fantasy in the poetry of sohrab sepehri and abbas beydoun(a comparative study)tooraj zinivand *jahungir amiri **reza kiany ***abstractif we look at the poems of the iranian poet sohrab sepehri and lebanese poetabbas beydoun , we find that the fantasy adopted by poets imagination is linked topsychological factors, and this fantasy often comes in surreal manner in branches ofliterary, sym...