Dreamwork

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In this book, with his inimitable flair for rooting out the phenomenological intricacies of apparently ordinary things, Steven Connor leads us on a tour of the dream factory of work, labour, toil and occupation. The result is a book of typically considerable - dare I say it - detective work that opens up the quotidian reality and enabling dreamscape of work to new understanding. * Nathan Waddell, Associate Professor in Twentieth-Century Literature, University of Birmingham * This is a delight of a book. It takes the seemingly innocuous concept of "work" and shows how central our understanding of it is to our collective understanding of the world. The book is beautifully written in a cascade of illuminating paradoxes and puns. It is also a treasure trove of scholarship from philology to management theory. A must-read. * Colin MacCabe, Distinguished Professor, University of Pittsburgh, and editor of Critical Quarterly *