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Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places
Author: | Ursula K. Le Guin |
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Grove Press, 1989 |
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Genre: | Science-Fiction / Fantasy |
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Table of Contents:
- vii - Introductory Note (Dancing at the Edge of the World) - essay
- 3 - The Space Crone - (1976) - essay
- 7 - Is Gender Necessary? Redux - (1987) - essay
- 17 - "Moral and Ethical Implications of Family Planning" - essay
- 21 - It Was a Dark and Stormy Night; or, Why Are We Huddling About the Campfire? - (1980) - essay
- 31 - Working on "The Lathe" - (1980) - essay
- 37 - Some Thoughts on Narrative - essay
- 46 - World-Making - (1983) - essay
- 49 - Hunger - essay
- 51 - Places Names - essay
- 75 - The Princess - essay
- 80 - A Non-Euclidean View of California As a Cold Place to Be - (1983) - essay
- 101 - Facing It - essay
- 104 - Reciprocity of Prose and Poetry - essay
- 115 - A Left-Handed Commencement Address - essay
- 118 - Along the Platte - (1983) - essay
- 123 - Whose Lathe? - (1984) - essay
- 127 - The Woman Without Answers - essay
- 130 - The Second Report of the Shipwrecked Foreigner to the Kadanh of Derb - shortstory
- 135 - Room 9, Car 1430 - (1985) - essay
- 138 - Theodora - (1985) - essay
- 142 - Science Fiction and the Future - essay
- 144 - The Only Good Author? - (1985) - essay
- 147 - Bryn Mawr Commencement Address - (1986) - essay
- 161 - Woman/Wilderness - essay
- 165 - The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction - (1988) - essay
- 171 - Heroes - (1986) - essay
- 176 - Prospects for Women in Writing - (1986) - essay
- 179 - Text, Silence, Performance - (1986) - essay
- 188 - "Who is Responsible?" - (1987) - essay
- 190 - Conflict - (1987) - essay
- 192 - "Where Do You Get Your Ideas From?" - (1987) - essay
- 201 - Over the Hills and a Great Way Off - (1988) - essay
- 212 - The Fisherwoman's Daughter - (1988) - essay
REVIEWS:
- 1977 The Dark Tower, by C.S. Lewis
- 1978 Close Encounters, Star Wars, and the Tertium Quid
- 1979 Shikasta, by Doris Lessing
- 1980 Two from "Venom"
- Freddy's Book and Vlemk, by John Gardner
- The Marriage Between Zones Three, Four, and Five, by Doris Lessing
- Kalila and Dimna, retold by Ramsay Wood
- Unfinished Busines, by Maggie Scarf
- Italian Folktales, by Italo Calvino
- 1981 Peak's Progress, by Mervyn Peake
- 1983 The Sentimental Agents, by Doris Lessing
- 1984 Difficult Loves, by Italo Calvino
- "Forsaking Kingdomes": Five Poets
- 1985 The Mythology of North American, by John Bierhorst
- 1986 Silent Partners, by Eugene Linden
- Outside the Gates, by Molly Gloss
- Golden Days, by Carolyn See
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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