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9780877546597

Ursula K. Le Guin

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  • ISBN13:

    9780877546597

  • ISBN10:

    0877546592

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2000-06-01
  • Publisher: Chelsea House Pub

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Summary

-- Brings together the best criticism on the most widely read poets, novelists, and playwrights
-- Presents complex critical portraits of the most influential writers in the English-speaking world -- from the English medievalists to contemporary writers

Table of Contents

Editor's Note ix
Introduction 1(10)
Harold Bloom
Ursula K. Le Guin's Archetypal ``Winter-Journey''
11(12)
David Ketterer
Wholeness and Balance
23(12)
Douglas Barbour
The Good Witch of the West
35(12)
Robert Scholes
The Forest as Metaphor for Mind: The Word for World is Forest and ``Vaster Than Empires and More Slow''
47(10)
Ian Watson
World-Reduction in Le Guin: The Emergence of Utopian Narrative
57(14)
Fredric Jameson
The Earthsea Trilogy
71(14)
George E. Slusser
Le Guin's ``Aberrant'' Opus: Escaping the Trap of Discontent
85(14)
Gerard Klein
The Magic Art and the Evolution of Words: The Earthsea Trilogy
99(20)
T. A. Shippey
Persuading Us to Rejoice and Teaching Us How to Praise: Le Guin's Orsinian Tales
119(26)
James W. Bittner
Personal and Political in The Dispossessed
145(10)
Victor Urbanowicz
Determinism, Free Will, and Point of View in The Left Hand of Darkness
155(16)
Eric S. Rabkin
Myth, Exchange and History in The Left Hand of Darkness
171(12)
Jeanne Murray Walker
Discovering Worlds: The Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin
183(28)
Susan Wood
The Tao Te Ching as Background to the Novels of Ursula K. Le Guin
211(14)
Dena C. Bain
The Left Hand of Darkness: Androgyny, Future, Present, and Past
225(10)
Barbara Brown
The Beginning Place: Le Guin's Metafantasy
235(8)
Brian Attebery
Optimism and the Limits of Subversion in The Dispossessed and The Left Hand of Darkness
243(16)
Carol McGuirk
Chronology 259(2)
Contributors 261(2)
Bibliography 263(2)
Acknowledgments 265(2)
Index 267

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