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Ursula K. Le Guin: Ursula K. Le Guin at an informal bookstore Q&A session, July 2004 |
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| Name: |
Ursula K. Le Guin | | Birth Date: |
October 21, 1929 | | Place of Birth: |
Berkeley, California, United States | | Nationality: |
American | | Gender: |
Female | | Occupations: |
writer, teacher |
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 Biography of Ursula K(roeber) Le Guin
17,529 words, approx. 58 pages
 [This entry was updated by Nancy Barendse (Charleston Southern University) from her update in the Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography, volume 6, of the entry by Brian Attebery (College of Idaho) in DLB 8: Twentieth-Century American... summary from source:
 Biography of Ursula K. Le Guin
17,122 words, approx. 57 pages
Ursula K. Le Guin is a writer of great versatility and power, acclaimed for her science fiction, fantasy, and children's literature. All her fiction is distinguished by careful craftsmanship, a limpid prose style, realistic detail in the creation of... summary from source:
Biography of Ursula K(roeber) Le Guin
12,913 words, approx. 43 pages
In a decade and a half, since Ursula K. LeGuin's first novel appeared as one half of an Ace Double paperback, she has become one of the most important writers in the field of science fiction. Le Guin writes the sort of stories science-fiction critics...
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 Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
1,654 words, approx. 6 pages
 Ursula K. Le Guin (born 21 October 1929 ), is a US-based author, known mostly for writing science fiction and fantasy. Contents 1 Sourced 1.1 A Wizard of Earthsea (1968) 1.2 The Left Hand of Darkness (1969) 1.3 The Lathe of Heaven (1971) 2 External...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Le Guin, Ursula K. (1929—) Summary
1,036 words, approx. 4 pagesIn the introduction to Joe De Bolt's collection of essays about Ursula K. Le Guin, Barry N. Malzberg claims that "Le Guin is probably the first writer to emerge solely within the confines of the genres of speculative fiction to win... summary from source:
 Ursula K. Le Guin Information
3,453 words, approx. 12 pages
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin [/ˈɝsjulə ˈkɹoʊbɚ ləˈgwɪn/] (born October 21, 1929) is an American author. She has written novels, poetry, children's books, essays, and short stories, most notably in the fantasy and science fiction genres. She was...
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 Extrapolation Ursula K. Le Guin and translation.
12/22/2006: 6,284 words, approx. 21 pages Ursula K. Le Guin is fascinated not just by language, but by languages. As well as poet, critic, and author of fiction for adults and children, Le Guin is a translator. Although it is only in recent years that Le Guin's translations have... summary from source:
Utopian Studies Dancing with Dragons: Ursula K. Le Guin and the Critics.(Review)
03/22/1999: 851 words, approx. 3 pages Donna R. White. Dancing with Dragons: Ursula K. Le Guin and the Critics. Columbia, S.C.: Camden House, 1999. xii + 144 pp. $50.00. THE MOST USEFUL ASPECT of Donna White's work is, in fact, just what White claims that she set out...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Karla Armbruster
11,286 words, approx. 38 pages
In the following essay, Armbruster considers the state of ecofeminist literary criticism and offers a poststructuralist ecofeminist reading of Le Guin's “Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come out Tonight.”
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Critical Essay by Heinz Tschachler
6,617 words, approx. 22 pages
In the following essay, Tschachler regards the four novellas of Four Ways to Forgiveness as statements on the evolution in American literature toward reconsideration of American values and conditions.
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Critical Essay by Elyce Rae Helford
5,895 words, approx. 20 pages
In the following essay, Helford examines Le Guin's “Buffalo Gals Won't You Come out Tonight,” finding it a “highly problematic cultural text, embedded in Anglo-Native American struggles over language, meaning, and culture; rich in the contradictions of the white, mainstream worldview through which it was written.”
Featured Essays
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 Essay Grade: 90%Ursula Le Guin
1,095 words, approx. 4 pages
Essay shows how Ursula Le Guin impresses us on the passage when Sparrowhawk confronts the Dragons in "A Wizard of Earth Sea."
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