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

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

Author:	Warren G. Rochelle
Publisher:	Liverpool University Press, 2001
Series:	Liverpool SF Studies: Book 25
1. Olaf Stapledon: Speaking for the Future 2. Anticipations 3. Utopian and Science Fiction by Women 4. The Detached Retina 5. Charlotte Perkins Gilman 6. Shadows of the Future 7. Tales of the Next Great War, 1871-1914 9. Female Rule in Chinese and English Literary Utopias 10. Look at the Evidence 11. The Angle Between Two Walls 12. The Great War with Germany, 1890-1914 13. View From Another Shore 14. Very Different Story 15. The Mechanics of Wonder 16. Deconstructing the Starships 17. Learning from Other Worlds 18. Demand My Writing 19. Narrating Utopia 20. Jules Verne 21. Speaking Science Fiction 22. Alien Plots 23. Ramsey Campbell and Modern Horror Fiction 24. The Time Machines 25. Communities of the Heart 26. Philip K Dick 27. A Dreamer and a Visionary 28. Rumors of War and Infernal Machines 29. Attending Daedalus 30. Transformations 31. The Country You Have Never Seen 32. Visions and Revisions 33. Shadows of the New Sun 34. Gateways To Forever 35. Science Fiction and Empire 36. H. G. Wells, Modernity and the Movies 37. Queer Universes 38. Plan for Chaos 39. Animal Alterity 40. Race, Ethnicity and Nuclear War 41. Gothic Science Fiction 42. Future Wars 43. Solar Flares 44. Locating Science Fiction 45. Singularities 46. Stanislaw Lem 47. The Liverpool Companion to World Science Fiction Film 48. Irish Science Fiction 49. Lemography 50. Surrealism, Science Fiction and Comics 51. Stanislaw Lem 52. Science Fiction Double Feature 53. Science Fiction Rebels 54. Hard Reading 55. Terraforming
Book Type:	Non-Fiction
Genre:	Science-Fiction
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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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