Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-214) and index.
Contents
Introduction : Circumstance as policy : the decade of Ursula K. Le Guin / Barry N. Malzberg -- Part I. The voyager -- A Le Guin biography / Joe De Bolt -- Part II. Voyage to inner lands and to outer space -- A survey of Le Guin criticism / James W. Bittner -- Solitary being : the hero as anthropologist / Karen Sinclair -- Science and rhetoric in the fiction of Ursula Le Guin / Peter T. Koper -- Part III. The Earthsea voyage -- Four letters about Le Guin / Rollin A. Lasseter -- "But dragons have keen ears" : on hearing "Earthsea" with recollections of Beowulf / John R. Pfeiffer -- The Earthsea trilogy : ethical fantasy for children / Francis J. Molson -- Part IV. Voyage to Anarres -- Taoist configurations : The dispossessed / Elizabeth Cummins Cogell -- Possessed sociology and Le Guin's Dispossessed : from exile to anarchism / Larry L. Tifft and Dennis C. Sullivan.