Ursula K. Le Guin's The left hand of darkness / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.

Other author Bloom, Harold.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Chelsea House Publishers, ©1987.
Descriptionvii, 150 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesModern critical interpretations
Modern critical interpretations. ^A224292
Contents The left hand of darkness : Ursula K. Le Guin's archetypal "winter-journey" / David Ketterer -- World-reduction in Le Guin : the emergence of Utopian narrative / Fredric Jameson -- The art of social-science fiction : the ambiguous Utopian dialectics of Ursula K. Le Guin / Donald F. Theall -- Le Guin's The left hand of darkness : form and content / Martin Bickman -- Myth, exchange and history in The left hand of darkness / Jeanne Murray Walker -- Determinism, free will, and point of view in Le Guin's The left hand of darkness / Eric S. Rabkin -- The left hand of darkness : androgyny, future, present, and past / Barbara Brown -- Conversational technique in Ursula Le Guin : a speech-act analysis / Victoria Myers.
Contents Optimism and the limits of subversion in The dispossessed and The left hand of darkness / Carol McGuirk.
Abstract A collection of nine critical essays on the modern social science fiction novel, arranged in chronological order of their original publication.
Local noteLittle-274145
General noteIncludes index.
Bibliography noteBibliography: p. 139-140.
LCCN 86029974
ISBN155546064X (alk. paper) :

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Joyner General Stacks PS3562.E42 L435 1987 ✔ Available Place Hold