Communities of the Heart [electronic resource] : The Rhetoric of Myth in the Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin
Rochelle, Warren.
Liverpool : Liverpool University Press,
2001.
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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Title Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; 1: The Making and Remaking of Meaning: Language, Story and Myth; 2: The Monomyth Reimagined; 3: Which Way to Eden?; 4: American Romantic/Pragmatic Rhetoric; 5: Communities of the Heart; Bibliography; Index of Works by Ursula K. Le Guin; General Index
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-2018.
English language.
Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-2018.
Myth in literature.
Science fiction, American.
Science fiction, American
English language
Myth in literature
American Literature
English
Languages & Literatures