1st Edition
Ursula K. Le Guin Beyond Genre Fiction for Children and Adults
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