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  • Ursula K. Le Guin: Five Novels (LOA #379)

    The Lathe of Heaven / The Eye of the Heron / The Beginning Place / Searoad / Lavinia

    by Ursula K. Le Guin ...
    **Together for the first time, all 5 standalone novels from the Hugo and Nebula award–winning writer who reinvented science fiction, including one restored to printSpans from the 1971 classic The Lathe of Heaven to her career-crowning 2008 masterpiece Lavinia**This 7th volume in the definitive Library of America edition of Ursula K. Le Guin’s works presents 5 remarkable standalone novels that ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Fantasy

    How It Works

    by Brian Attebery ...
    An exciting and accessible study of the genre of fantasy. One of the dominant modes of storytelling in the twenty-first century, fantasy can mirror contemporary experiences and convey our anxieties and longings better than any representation of the merely real. It is the lie that speaks truth. This book addresses two central questions about fantastic storytelling: first, how can it be meaningful ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Parabolas of Science Fiction

    Edited by Brian Attebery, Veronica Hollinger ...
    As a geometric term, parabola suggests a narrative trajectory or story arc. In science fiction, parabolas take us from the known to the unknown. More concrete than themes, more complex than motifs, parabolas are combinations of meaningful setting, character, and action that lend themselves to endless redefinition and jazzlike improvisation. The fourteen original essays in this collection explore ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Fantasy and Myth in the Anthropocene

    Imagining Futures and Dreaming Hope in Literature and Media

    Edited by Dr Marek Oziewicz, Professor Brian Attebery, Dr Tereza Dedinová ...
    The first study to look at the intersection of the discourse of the Anthropocene within the two highly influential storytelling modes of fantasy and myth, this book shows the need for stories that articulate visions of a biocentric, ecological civilization. Fantasy and myth have long been humanity's most advanced technologies for collective dreaming. Today they are helping us adopt a biocentric ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Stories about Stories

    Fantasy and the Remaking of Myth

    by Brian Attebery ...
    Myth is oral, collective, sacred, and timeless. Fantasy is a modern literary mode and a popular entertainment. Yet the two have always been inextricably intertwined. Stories about Stories examines fantasy as an arena in which different ways of understanding myth compete and new relationships with myth are worked out. The book offers a comprehensive history of the modern fantastic as well as an ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Women Alone, Men Alone: Single-Sex Utopias, Femspec Issue 1.2

    Femspec Articles, #21

    by Brian Attebery ...
    Series Book 21 - Femspec Articles
    Using the concepts of Eutopia and Dystopia to describe the extremes of utopias, Brian Attebery's article "Women Alone, Men Alone: Single-Sex Utopias" examines the revivification of utopian fiction since the 1950s. By coining the term masculinist as a linguistic parallel to feminist, Attebery provides useful terms for discussion of utopia and gender in new ways. Critical and creative works by ... Read more

    $15.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ursula K. Le Guin: The Complete Orsinia (LOA #281)

    Malafrena / Stories and Songs

    by Ursula K. Le Guin ...
    Series Book 1 - Library of America Ursula K. Le Guin Edition
    Library of America gathers for the first time the entire body of work set in the imaginary central European nation of Orsinia—the enchanting, richly imagined historical fiction series written by Hugo, Nebula, and National Book Award winner Ursula K. Le Guin.In a career spanning half a century, Ursula K. Le Guin has produced a body of work that testifies to her abiding faith in the power and art of ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Ursula K. Le Guin: Annals of the Western Shore (LOA #335)

    Gifts / Voices / Powers

    by Ursula K. Le Guin ...
    Ursula K. Le Guin’s Nebula Award–winning young adult fantasy series—gathered for the first time in a deluxe collector’s edition for readers of all agesTeenagers struggle to come to terms with their own mysterious and magical gifts as they come-of-age in the far-flung Western Shore.This fifth volume in the definitive Library of America edition of Ursula K. Le Guin’s work presents a trilogy of ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Narrative, Identity, and Academic Community in Higher Education

    Edited by Brian Attebery, John Gribas, Mark K McBeth, Paul Sivitz, Kandi Turley-Ames ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Higher Education
    Grounded in narrative theory, this book offers a case study of a liberal arts college’s use of narrative to help build identity, community, and collaboration within the college faculty across a range of disciplines, including history, psychology, sociology, theatre and dance, literature, anthropology, and communication. Exploring issues of methodology and their practical application, this ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Decoding Gender in Science Fiction

    by Brian Attebery ...
    From Frankenstein to futuristic feminist utopias, Decoding Gender in Science Fiction examines the ways science fiction writers have incorporated, explored, and revised conventional notions of sexual difference. Attebery traces a fascinating history of men's and women's writing that covertly or overtly investigates conceptions of gender, suggesting new perspectives on the genre. ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Ursula K. Le Guin: Always Coming Home (LOA #315)

    Author's Expanded Edition

    by Ursula K. Le Guin ...
    Series Book 4 - Library of America Ursula K. Le Guin Edition
    Ursula K. Le Guin's richly-imagined vision of a post-apocalyptic California, in a newly expanded version prepared shortly before her deathThis fourth volume in the Library of America’s definitive Ursula K. Le Guin edition presents her most ambitious novel and finest achievement, a mid-career masterpiece that showcases her unique genius for world building. Framed as an anthropologist’s report on ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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