Essays about: "Ursula K. Le Guin"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 11 essays containing the words Ursula K. Le Guin.

1. 1. The Word for World is Forest : A multidisciplinary approach to teaching about genocide

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Author : Marco Zalazar; [2023]
   Keywords : Genocide; Dehumanization; Peace Education; Le Guin; Cognitive Estrangement; Engaged Reading; Socratic Pedagogy;

   Abstract : The current position proposed as a possible antidote to future human conflicts is to educate our students about the horrific consequences of past atrocities. To this end, this research paper will examine the possibilities of teaching the students to recognize and reject dehumanizing attitudes in society. READ MORE

3. 2. A Worm in an Apple : An analysis of hegemonic masculinity, personal responsibility and the nature of the Shadow in Ursula K. Le Guin’s A Wizard of Earthsea

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

   Author : Gwendolyn Maddy Hansson; [2022]
   Keywords : A Wizard of Earthsea; Ursula K. Le Guin; genre deconstruction; masculinity; hegemonic masculinity; personal responsibility; school culture; boy problem; fantasy literature; upper-secondary school; secondary school; English as a Foreign;

   Abstract : In this paper, Ursula K Le Guin’s 1968 fantasy novel, A Wizard of Earthsea will be investigated in two ways. First, through a thematic analysis of the primary antagonist through a deconstructive close-reading technique. Second, through a pedagogic analysis of the depiction of hegemonic masculinity in the novel. READ MORE

4. 3. Is it queer enough? : Anti-normativity in Young Adult Literature: Acomparison between Carve the Mark, The Left Hand ofDarkness, and The Giver

   University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle

   Author : Lisa Strandberg; [2021]
   Keywords : queer theory; gender performativity; Roth; anti-normativity; heteronormativity;

   Abstract : This essay explores how anti-normativity is achieved in Veronica Roth's novel Carve the Mark and uses Lois Lowry's The Giver and Ursula K Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness as points of comparison. It examines if Roth, Lowry, and Le Guin follow through with creating characters that are more than superficially queer by destabilizing gender and traditional attitudes towards identity markers. READ MORE

5. 4. Gardens of Compost

   University essay from KTH/Arkitektur

   Author : Anton Lindström; [2020]
   Keywords : anthropocene; storytelling; deleuze; haraway; critical; theory; environmentalism; rhizome; SF; string figures; care; painting; feminism; dystopia; apocalypse;

   Abstract : An interrogation of architecture's prevailing myths, and a practice for how to live and die well as an architect in the Anthropocene epoch.  It is an effort to combine joyful representation and speculation (because architecture is both too serious and not nearly serious enough), with philosophy, for still possible pasts, presents and futures. READ MORE

6. 5. Gender and Sexuality on Gethen : A Contemporary Analysis of Ursula K le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness

   University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)

   Author : Ellen Andersson; [2020]
   Keywords : gender; sexuality; Ursula K Le Guin; The Left Hand of Darkness; science fiction; kön; sexualitet; Ursula K Le Guin; Mörkrets Vänstra Hand; science fiction;

   Abstract : Ursula K Le Guin wrote The Left Hand of Darkness (1969) because she wanted to explore the limitations of gender and sexuality in a way that reflected the ongoing epistemic changes in her society. She created the Gethenians, an ambisexual, androgynous species that live most of their life without an assigned sex, making their entire society lack the concept of gender. READ MORE