Ursula K. Le Guin's "A Wizard of Earthsea" : a critical companion / Timothy S. Miller.
Miller, Timothy S., author.
2023
PS3562.E42
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Title Ursula K. Le Guin's "A Wizard of Earthsea" : a critical companion / Timothy S. Miller.
Author Miller, Timothy S., author.
ISBN 9783031246401 (electronic bk.)
3031246403 (electronic bk.)
9783031246395
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24640-1
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xiii, 98 pages).
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-031-24640-1 doi
Call Number PS3562.E42
Dewey Decimal Classification 813/.5409
Summary Written not so long after "Tolkien mania" first gripped the United States in the 1960s, Ursula K. Le Guin's novel A Wizard of Earthsea (1968) has long been recognized as a classic of the fantasy genre, and the series of Earthsea books that followed on it over the next several decades earned its author both considerable sales and critical accolades. This new introduction to the text will closely contextualize the original novel in relation to its heady decade of composition and publication ⁰́₄ a momentous time for genre publishing ⁰́₄ and also survey the half century and more of scholarship on Earthsea, which has shifted in direction and emphasis many times over the decades, just as surely as Le Guin frequently adjusted her own sails when composing later works set in the fantasy world. Above all, this book positions A Wizard of Earthsea as perhaps an "old text" that nevertheless belongs in a "new canon," a key novel in the author's career and the genre in which it participates, and one that at once looks back to Tolkien and his own antecedents in masculinist early fantasy; looks forward to Le Guin's own continuing feminist and progressive education; and anticipates and indeed helped to shape young adult literature in its contemporary form. Timothy S. Miller is Assistant Professor of English at Florida Atlantic University, USA.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed March 6, 2023).
Series Palgrave science fiction and fantasy: a new canon, 2662-8570
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1 The Boy Wizard and the Young Grand Master
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2 Between Children⁰́₉s Literature and ⁰́₋Adult Fantasy⁰́₊: The Antecedents and Audiences of A Wizard of Earthsea
Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, and Old King Arthur: Earthsea and Its Predecessors
Earthsea Pedagogies: Learning to Live in an Enchanted World
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3 Fantasy and the Weight of Whiteness: Racial Dynamics in Earthsea
A Wizard of Earthsea in Black and White: Uncoupling Whiteness and Goodness
Illustration, Adaptation, and the Racial Politics of the Visual Imagination
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4 Light and Shadow, Good and Evil: Ethical, Psychological, and Other Critical Approaches to the Fantastic
A Brief Taxonomy of Critical Approaches to Le Guin
The ⁰́₋Way⁰́₊ to Read Le Guin?: Earthsea and Daoism
Fantasy and the Unconscious: Jung and the Nature of the Shadow
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5 Bringing Women to Roke Knoll: Gender and the Lifelong Evolution of Earthsea
Introduction: Reimagining Earthsea
⁰́₋You need not fear a woman⁰́₊: The Witch and the Sorceress
Ennobling Hearth and Home
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6 Conclusion: Le Guin⁰́₉s Legacies in Fiction and in Scholarship
The Schools for Wizards: Magical Pedagogy Today
The Future(s) of Le Guin Studies
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