Browsing Department of English Studies by Subject "Ursula K. Le Guin"

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Accessing the ‘Other Wind’: feminine time in Ursula Le Guin’s Earthsea series

Donaldson, Eileen (Taylor and Francis, 2013-05)

It is widely accepted that feminist speculative fiction (SF) provides an imaginative space for the exploration of ideas first proposed in feminist theory. This article demonstrates that the changing attitude to feminine ...
Arboreal thresholds - the liminal function of trees in twentieth-century fantasy narratives

Potter, Mary-Anne (2018-09)

Trees, as threshold beings, effectively blur the line between the real world and fantastical alternate worlds, and destabilise traditional binary classification systems that distinguish humanity, and Culture, from Nature. ...
Confrontations with the Anima in The Dispossessed, The Left Hand of Darkness, and Tehanu by Ursula K. Le Guin

Barrett, Mary Sarah (2005-11)

This dissertation analyses the protagonists in The Dispossessed, The Left Hand of Darkness, and Tehanu by Ursula K. Le Guin, and looks at the extent to which they confront the Jungian archetype of the anima. I demonstrate ...
Selves and others : the politics of difference in the writings of Ursula Kroeber le Guin

Byrne, D. C. (Deirdre C.) (1995-11)

Selves and Others: The Politics of Difference in the Writings of Ursula Kroeber Le Guin has two founding premises. One is that Le Guin's writing addresses the political issues of the late twentieth century in a number ...

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