1st Edition

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

By Mike Cadden Copyright 2005
    220 Pages
    by Routledge

    220 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.

    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

    Biography

    Mike1 Cadden

    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