Utopia and Revolution

Lasky, Melvin J. Utopia and Revolution. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1976.

Contains useful comments (mostly passim) on the metaphors and imagery of revolution and radical reform. Such metaphors for change (particularly the organic image of birth) should be contrasted with the images of mechanism often used to symbolize dystopian stasis. See in this Category, the citation for G. Saccaro-Battisti.