书目名称 | Ursula K. Le Guin’s "A Wizard of Earthsea" |
副标题 | A Critical Companion |
编辑 | Timothy S. Miller |
视频video | http://file.papertrans.cn/945/944387/944387.mp4 |
概述 | Provides a guide to the long history behind the series and its popular and scholarly reception.Contextualizes the novel’s publication in relation to the emergence of fantasy literature.Highlights Le G |
丛书名称 | Palgrave Science Fiction and Fantasy: A New Canon |
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描述 | Written not so long after "Tolkien mania" first gripped the United States in the 1960s, Ursula K. Le Guin‘s novel .A Wizard of Earthsea .(1968) has long been recognized as a classic of the fantasy genre, and the series of Earthsea books that followed on it over the next several decades earned its author both considerable sales and critical accolades. This new introduction to the text will closely contextualize the original novel in relation to its heady decade of composition and publication — a momentous time for genre publishing — and also survey the half century and more of scholarship on Earthsea, which has shifted in direction and emphasis many times over the decades, just as surely as Le Guin frequently adjusted her own sails when composing later works set in the fantasy world. Above all, this book positions .A Wizard of Earthsea .as perhaps an "old text" that nevertheless belongs in a "new canon," a key novel in the author‘s career and the genre in which it participates, and one that at once looks back to Tolkien and his own antecedents in masculinist early fantasy; looks forward to Le Guin‘s own continuing feminist and progressive education; and anticipates and indeed helped |
出版日期 | Book 2023 |
关键词 | Science Fiction; Fantasy Fiction; Ursula K; Le Guin; Earthsea series; young adult literature; literature |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24640-1 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-031-24640-1Series ISSN 2662-8562 Series E-ISSN 2662-8570 |
issn_series | 2662-8562 |
copyright | The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023 |