Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Ursula K. Le Guin"”.
-
Action and activism in selected novels by Ursula K. Le Guin
… in five science fiction and utopian novels by Ursula K. Le Guin, namely, The left hand of darkness, The word for world is forest, The lathe of heaven, The dispossessed, and Always coming home. Le Guin is a politically committed author whose ideological perspective is informed by feminism, …
-
The Metaphor of Turning and Returning in The Novels of Ursula K. Le Guin, 1968-1974 (Science Fiction; Oregon)
… 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 …
-
Η λογοτεχνία του φανταστικού και η συγκριτική εξέταση των έργων «Γαιοθάλασσα» της Ursula K. Le Guin και «Μια Στάλα Μαγεία» της Michelle Harrison
… του φανταστικού: τη «Γαιοθάλασσα» της Ursula K. Le Guin και τη «Μια Στάλα Μαγεία» της Michelle Harrison. Εστιάζει στον τρόπο με τον οποίο κάθε έργο διαμορφώνει το φανταστικό σύμπαν του, αναπτύσσει τους χαρακτήρες του και ενσωματώνει θέματα και μοτίβα που απευθύνονται σε διαφορετικές …
-
THE UNRAVELING OF A WORLD: DEGENERATION IN URSULA K. LE GUIN’S EARTHSEA CYCLE
In the first Earthsea trilogy, Ursula K. Le Guin exposes the process of degeneration, humanity’s connection to it, and how restoration counteracts the devastation of degeneration. Throughout the trilogy, degeneration comes in different forms. Each novel focuses primarily on personal and collective …
-
Phantasms of Hope: The Utopian Function of Fantasy Literature
… utopian function within the archetypes and allegories of fairy tales, a precursor to modern fantasy. Bloch argues that archetypes are not static entities and can be repurposed to critique the world contemporary to a text’s production. Even archetypes produced under a past mode of production, …
-
Contending With Coloniality Through Speculation, Storytelling, And Sound Performance
… of difference in order to eradicate all peoples and practices defined as different from the colonizing self, norm, community, nation, or race. It is a way of thinking, a way of being, and a way of relating with other life that was and remains central to European colonial projects in the …
-
COMMUNITY, BODY, AND LANDSCAPE: CONSTRUCTION OF PLACE IN MOLLY GLOSS’S THE DAZZLE OF DAY AND URSULA K. LE GUIN’S ALWAYS COMING HOME
… sense of place created by Molly Gloss in The Dazzle of Day (1997) and by Ursula K. Le Guin in Always Coming Home (1985). Ecofiction narratives, such as Dazzle and Always, are particularly important because they allow us to explore potentially unexamined relationships of unjustified domination …
-
COMMUNITY, BODY, AND LANDSCAPE: CONSTRUCTION OF PLACE IN MOLLY GLOSS’S THE DAZZLE OF DAY AND URSULA K. LE GUIN’S ALWAYS COMING HOME
… sense of place created by Molly Gloss in The Dazzle of Day (1997) and by Ursula K. Le Guin in Always Coming Home (1985). Ecofiction narratives, such as Dazzle and Always, are particularly important because they allow us to explore potentially unexamined relationships of unjustified domination …
-
Cloud village: a novel
… new systems of meaning, the moments in which people reinvent themselves and their values, and in which a new language or expression is created. James Clifford calls these moments “Ethnographic Surrealism”, particularly when ethnography provides a critical distance from one’s own culture in order …
-
Uncommon work: Utopia, labor, and environment in late twentieth-century American fiction
… Wall, critical theorists have lamented in elegiac fashion the disappearance of any political economic system, real or imaginary, that could feasibly offer an alternative to liberal capitalism. Utopia, understood as the aesthetic expression of the desire for alternative social realities, has …
-
Gathering Futures: Speculative Fiction as a Map for Transforming the Climate Crisis
… new systems of surviving the climate crisis. While environmental literature warned of this crisis, climate change has outpaced warning. Indeed, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reiterates that the scale of necessary change is beyond any other course correction in human …
-
A coat of ashes: A collection of poems, incorporating a metafictional narrative - and - Poetry, Daoism, physics and systems theory: a poetics: A set of critical essays
This thesis comprises a book-length creative work accompanied by a set of essays. It explores how poetry might bring together spiritual and scientific discourses, focusing primarily on philosophical Daoism (Taoism) and contemporary physics. Systems theory (the science of complex and self-organising …
-
Turbulent Times: Epic Fantasy in Adolescent Literature
… the anima/animus concept, the Hero Cycle, and identity development through fairy tales. I argue that there are vital rites of passage missing in Anglo-Saxon culture, and while bibliotherapy cannot replace them, it can help adolescents synthesize their experiences. The theories of Jung, …