| Communities of the Heart: The Rhetoric of Myth in the Fiction of Ursula K Le Guin Contributor(s): Rochelle, Warren (Author) |
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ISBN: 0853238766 ISBN-13: 9780853238768 Publisher: Liverpool University Press OUR PRICE: $118.75 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2001 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
| Dewey: 813.54 |
| LCCN: 2001411127 |
| Lexile Measure: 1430 |
| Series: Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.44" W x 9.44" 208 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book explores the use of imaginative literature as persuasion, focusing on the science fiction of Ursula Le Guin and her rhetorical use of myth. The author concludes that Le Guin (like Emerson, Peirce, Thoreau, Whitman, and Dewey) is a romantic/pragmatic rhetorician. In that sense, she is arguing for what Vico argued for in the eighteenth century: that knowledge should be seen and studied as an integrated whole, and that Cartesian thinking is only part of how humans make meaning. |