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To Defend Of To Correct: Patterns Of Culture In Always Coming Home, Lilliam M. Heldreth
To Defend Of To Correct: Patterns Of Culture In Always Coming Home, Lilliam M. Heldreth
Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature
Relates Hilgartner and Bartter’s extension of linguistic theory into behavior theory to the cultures of the Kesh and the Condors. Explains their cultural patterns of “image-correction” and “image-defense.” Sees utopian and dystopian elements tempered by realistic views of human nature.
Self-Conscious Narration As The Complex Representation Of Hope In Le Guin's Always Coming Home, Carol Franko
Self-Conscious Narration As The Complex Representation Of Hope In Le Guin's Always Coming Home, Carol Franko
Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature
Calls Always Coming Home an “open-ended utopia” that presents the possibility of utopia without being specific about the means to get there. The self-reflexive narrator, Pandora, is the “structuring paradox” of a novel that leads the reader to long for a utopia while remaining ambiguous about its possibility.