Communities of the Heart: The Rhetoric of Myth in the Fiction of Ursula K Le Guin: 25 (Liverpool Science Fiction Texts & Studies) - Hardcover

Rochelle, Warren

 
9780853238768: Communities of the Heart: The Rhetoric of Myth in the Fiction of Ursula K Le Guin: 25 (Liverpool Science Fiction Texts & Studies)
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ISBN 10: 0853238766 ISBN 13: 9780853238768
Publisher: Liverpool University Press, 2000

Synopsis

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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About the Author


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

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Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Publication date
2000
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0853238766
ISBN 13 
9780853238768
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
208

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