One Earth, One People: The Mythopoeic Fantasy Series of Ursula K. Le Guin, Lloyd Alexander, Madeleine L'Engle and Orson Scott CardThis work presents the genre of mythopoeic fantasy from a holistic perspective, arguing that this central genre of fantasy literature is largely misunderstood as a result of decades of incomplete and reductionist literary studies. The author asserts that mythopoeic fantasy is not only the most complete literary expression of a worldview based on the existence of supernatural or spiritual powers but that the genre is in a unique position to transform social consciousness with a renewed emphasis on anticipating the future. The author lays out theoretical foundations for his argument in the first four chapters and then demonstrates how the works of fantasy authors Ursula K. LeGuin, Lloyd Alexander, Madeleine L'Engle, and Orson Scott Card exemplify his argument in the remaining four chapters. |
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The image , Le Guin says , is " very profound , ” for it suggests that “ [ b ] eneath memory and experience , beneath imagination and invention – beneath words ... - there are rhythms to which memory and imagination and words all move ...
The image , Le Guin says , is " very profound , ” for it suggests that “ [ b ] eneath memory and experience , beneath imagination and invention – beneath words ... - there are rhythms to which memory and imagination and words all move ...
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Considering that the primary function of myth - telling , as Sean Kane says in his 1994 Wisdom of Mythtellers , is to reawaken “ a people's whole memory by an act of ' handing on , ' which is what the word tradition literally means ...
Considering that the primary function of myth - telling , as Sean Kane says in his 1994 Wisdom of Mythtellers , is to reawaken “ a people's whole memory by an act of ' handing on , ' which is what the word tradition literally means ...
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out One type of story that L'Engle finds especially mind - opening is called myth - a story which , as she says , deals with “ basic truths that help illuminate ( our ) own problems ” and is “ true to our human condition ” ( Rock 92 ) ...
out One type of story that L'Engle finds especially mind - opening is called myth - a story which , as she says , deals with “ basic truths that help illuminate ( our ) own problems ” and is “ true to our human condition ” ( Rock 92 ) ...
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Contents
Acknowledgments | 1 |
The Confusion over Fantasy and the Confusions of | 7 |
Theoretical Era | 13 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | One Earth, One People: The Mythopoeic Fantasy Series of Ursula K. Le Guin, Lloyd Alexander, Madeleine L'Engle and Orson Scott Card Volume 6 of Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy |
| Author | Marek Oziewicz |
| Editors | Donald E. Palumbo, C.W. Sullivan III |
| Contributors | Donald E. Palumbo, C.W. Sullivan III |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers, 2008 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 28 Jun 2008 |
| ISBN | 0786431350, 9780786431359 |
| Length | 263 pages |
| Subjects | › › Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / Science Fiction & Fantasy Performing Arts / Film / General |
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