Ursula K. Le Guin Beyond Genre: Fiction for Children and Adults

by Mike Cadden

Overview

This book critically examines Le Guin's fiction for all ages, and it will be of great interest to her many admirers and to all students and scholars of children's literature.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415995276
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/01/2008
Series:	Children's Literature and Culture
Pages:	220
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Mike Cadden is Associate Professor of English at Missouri Western State College. He has published numerous articles on Ursula K. Le Guin and children’s literature.

Table of Contents

Series Editor’s Foreword

Acknowledgments

Preface

Chapter 1: Le Guin’s Continuum of Anthropomorphism

Chapter 2: Connecting Characters on the Continuum of Viewpoint

Chapter 3: Home as Travel Through Time and Place

Chapter 4: Earthsea: Crossover Series of Multiple Continua

Chapter 5: Always Coming Home: Childhood, Children’s Stories, and the Child Reader

Chapter 6: Ethics and the Continuum of Hope: Genre and Audience

Chapter 7: An Interview with Ursula K. Le Guin

Endnotes

Bibliography

Index

Editorial Reviews

2006 Locus Magazine Award finalist for Best Non-Fiction

"A book like Cadden's is long overdue. I found Cadden's categories useful, his approaches enlightening, and his obvious love for the material congenial." - Children's Literature Association Quarterly

"It is a study conducted in Le Guinian frame of mind which resists closure and does not insist on synthesis or reconciliation of many-voicedness and many-facetedness of Le Guin's fiction, and yet suggests important way in which her output can, indeed, be seen as forming a number of recognizable continua" —Marek Oziewicz, University of Wroclaw, Poland, Internation Research Society for Children's Literature

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