Essays about: "Le Guin"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 14 essays containing the words 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. Worlding Communication: The Foregrounding of Novel Communication Barriers in Literature

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Author : Serra Hughes; [2022]
   Keywords : novel communication barriers; Eric Hayot; novum; world literature; estrangement; metadiegetic structures; Jürgen Habermas; Darko Suvin; language; linguistic novelty;

   Abstract : Novel communication barriers, innovative obstacles to mutual understanding that deviate from the norms of the actual world, are a recurring yet understudied presence in aesthetic worlds of all kinds. Some examples of this are Dana’s twentieth-century way of speaking that travels back in time with her in Kindred, or Americans under Japanese occupation struggling to speak through cultural and linguistic barriers in an alternate historical timeline in The Man in the High Castle, or the unique obstructions to communication in the alien encounters of Ursula Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness or Ted Chiang’s “The Story of Your Life. READ MORE

4. 3. 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

5. 4. Triptych of ruderal architecture

   University essay from KTH/Arkitektur

   Author : Erik Lokrantz; [2021]
   Keywords : nonhuman actors; ownership; property; artistic research; speculative fabulation; science fiction; ruin; ruderal; deterritorialization; reterritorialization; haraway; bennet; stengers; le guin;

   Abstract : The Ruderal Triptych is a narrative, fictional, artistic, research project. It centers itself on questions of ownership as a legal and physical machinery, that works within global extractive economies. I want to question what we are really producing when we produce architecture. READ MORE

6. 5. 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