Ursula K. Le Guin, Consent, and Metaphor

In Ursula K. Le Guin, Consent, and Metaphor, Kate Sheckler presents an alternative approach to understanding metaphor, altering our conception of the form and its effects. She identifies the delineation and effect created in the moment consent is offered.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: With Respect to the Future
List of Abbreviations
Chapter One: The Edge of the World: The Unknown as Metaphor in The Left Hand of Darkness
Chapter Two: Only Means: Governance and Metaphor in The Dispossessed
Chapter Three: My Sister, My Brother, My Other: The Alien in The Eye of the Heron and Four Ways to Forgiveness
Chapter Four: Something from Nothing: Acts of Creation in Le Guin's The Telling.
Conclusion: Risky Futures
Works Cited
About the Author

About the author

By Kate Sheckler

Summary

In Ursula K. Le Guin, Consent, and Metaphor, Kate Sheckler presents an alternative approach to understanding metaphor, altering our conception of the form and its effects. She identifies the delineation and effect created in the moment consent is offered.

Product details

• Authors: Kate Sheckler
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2022
• EAN: 9781666904871
• ISBN: 978-1-66690-487-1
• No. of pages: 164
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Science Fiction, Fantasy, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, LITERARY CRITICISM / Science Fiction & Fantasy, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers