Ursula Le Guin''s Earthsea

A book on the experience of reading Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea novels that celebrates Le Guin's monumental worldbuilding achievement recaptures the glories of childhood reading.

List of contents

• Introduction: Reading and Re-reading Le Guin


• 1: Earthsea and the Fantasy Tradition


• 2: Le Guin's First Earthsea


• 3: Earthsea Revisited


• 4: My Earthsea

About the author

John Plotz is Mandel Professor of Humanities at Brandeis University and editor of the B-Sides feature in Public Books as well as B-Side Books (Columbia University Press, 2021). He co-hosts two podcasts: Novel Dialogue and Recall This Book. His books include The Crowd: British Literature and Public Politics (University of California Press, 2000), Portable Property: Victorian Culture on the Move (Princeton University Press, 2008), and Semi-Detached: Aesthetic Experience from Dickens to Keaton (Princeton University Press, 2017) He is among the co-founders of the Brandeis Educational Justice Initiative.

Summary

A book on the experience of reading Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea novels that celebrates Le Guin's monumental worldbuilding achievement recaptures the glories of childhood reading.

Product details

• Authors: John Plotz, John (Mandel Professor of Humanities Plotz, Plotz John
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.05.2023
• EAN: 9780192847881
• ISBN: 978-0-19-284788-1
• No. of pages: 160
• Series: My Reading
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Science Fiction, Fantasy, FICTION / Science Fiction / General, FICTION / Fantasy / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000