Communities of the Heart
The Rhetoric of Myth in the Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin
Distributed for Liverpool University Press
208 pages
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6 x 9
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© 2001
This book explores the use of imaginative literature as persuasion, focusing on the science fiction of Ursula Le Guin and her rhetorical use of myth. The author concludes that Le Guin (like Emerson, Peirce, Thoreau, Whitman, and Dewey) is a romantic/pragmatic rhetorician. In that sense, she is arguing for what Vico argued for in the eighteenth century: that knowledge should be seen and studied as an integrated whole, and that Cartesian thinking is only part of how humans make meaning.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface
1. The Making and Remaking of Meaning: Language, Story and Myth
2. The Monomyth Reimagined
3. Which Way to Eden?
4. American Romantic/Pragmatic Rhetoric
5. Communities of the Heart
Bibliography
Index of Works by Ursula K. Le Guin
General Index
Preface
1. The Making and Remaking of Meaning: Language, Story and Myth
2. The Monomyth Reimagined
3. Which Way to Eden?
4. American Romantic/Pragmatic Rhetoric
5. Communities of the Heart
Bibliography
Index of Works by Ursula K. Le Guin
General Index
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