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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The Metaphor of Turning and Returning in The Novels of Ursula K. Le Guin, 1968-1974 (Science Fiction; Oregon)
Abstract
dc:descriptionThis study explores the theme of turning and returning which emerges in the six classic science fiction and fantasy novels Ursula K. Le Guin published between 1968 and 1974. In these novels Le Guin depicts turning and returning as the way an individual and a community can complete the knowledge and the fulfillment of the self. She illustrates the theme through the image of the spiral journey, i.e., a going out and a coming back that is not a circular journey because one returns to a different place, a new and complete self. The crucial moment in this spiral journey is the turning point, that place in the journey when one realizes the return is necessary for the completion of the quest.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph.D.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Dissertation
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- English
- Grantor
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Year dc:date
- 2014
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Cogell, Elizabeth Cummins
Subjects
dc:subject × 1Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
- (UMI)AAI8511597
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/69439