Communities of the Heart: The Rhetoric of Myth in the Fiction of Ursula K Le Guin

Author:   Warren Rochelle
Publisher:   Liverpool University Press
Volume:   25
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9781781380505


Publication Date:   22 May 2014
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Communities of the Heart: The Rhetoric of Myth in the Fiction of Ursula K Le Guin


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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.

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Author:   Warren Rochelle
Publisher:   Liverpool University Press
Imprint:   Liverpool University Press
Volume:   25
ISBN:  

9781781380505


ISBN 10:   1781380503
Publication Date:   22 May 2014
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Undefined
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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In this revised doctoral dissertation, the creative writer Rochelle brings an expertise in storytelling to theoretical discussions. --Science Fiction Studies


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Warren Rochelle is Professor of English at the University of Mary Washington, in Fredericksburg, Virginia.

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