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* List of scholarship and criticism on Ursula Le Guin: Dissertations and Theses
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* List of scholarship and criticism on Ursula Le Guin: Reviews of Le Guin's Publications
* List of scholarship and criticism on Ursula Le Guin: Bibliographies
* List of scholarship and criticism on Ursula Le Guin: Monographs
* List of scholarship and criticism on Ursula Le Guin: Papers and Essays


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==Reviews==
==Entries in Reference Books==
; Nicholas Whyte. Review of The Dispossessed. Aug. 20, 2001. Available at http://explorers.whyte.com/sf/disp.htm; last visited, 2003-Feb-18.
* Authors and Artists for Young Adults, Vol 9, Gale, 1992
* Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography 1968-1988, Gale, 1989
* Contemporary Literary Criticism Vol 8, Gale, 1978; Vol 13, 1980; Vol 22, 1982; Vol 45, 1987; Vol 71, 1992;
* Dictionary of Literary Biography by Andrew Gordon, Vol 52, Gale, 1986 
* Children's Literature Review Vol 3, Gale, 1978; Vol 28, 1992
* Dictionary of Literary Biography by Brian Attebery, Vol 8, Gale, 1981
* ''[[Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy]]'', ed. by [[Robin Reid]]


 
==Study Guides==
==Monographs and Collections==
* [http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/science_fiction/dispossessed.html Paul Brians' Study Guide on ''The Dispossessed'']
; [[Harold Bloom]].
* Editor. ''Ursula K. Le Guin (anthology)
* Ursula K. Le Guin's "The Left Hand of Darkness" (Chelsea House Pub.: 1987; ISBN 155546064X) (Modern Critical Interpretations series) anthology.
 
; [[Elizabeth Cummins]].
* ''[[Understanding Ursula K. Le Guin]]''. Revised Edition. (Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press, 1993.) (Understanding Contemporary American Literature).
 
; [[Joe De Bolt]].
* Editor, ''Ursula K. Le Guin: Voyager to Inner Lands and to Outer Space.'' Associated Faculty Press, 1978 (ISBN 0804692297); Kennikat Press, 1979, 1991.
 
; [[Karen Joy Fowler]], editor.
* ''[[80! Memories & Reflections on Ursula K. Le Guin]]'' (2010) (festschrift)
 
==Bibliographies==
; Bratman, David S.
* Compiled. "Ursula K. Le Guin: A Primary Bibliography", Preliminary edition, February 1995. 42 pages. Contact d.bratman@genie.com for more information ...
; Cogell, Elizabeth C. Ursula K. Le Guin: A Primary and Secondary Bibliography (G. K. Hall: 1983, ISBN 0816181551)
 
 
==Dissertations and Theses==
; Bittner, Jim.
* Approaches to the Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin (Dissertation, University of Wisconsin, 1979)
 
 
 
==assorted list==
 
; Berkley, Miriam.
* "Ursula K. Le Guin." Publishers Weekly v. 229 (May 23 1986), page 72.
 
; Cadden, Mike. Ursula K. Le Guin Beyond Genre: Fiction for Children and Adults. New York and London: Routledge, Inc., 2005. (Volume 33 of the series "Children's Literature and Culture," General Editor: Jack Zipes) 203 pp.
 
; Cadden, Mike.
* "Taking Different Roads to the City: The Development of Ursula K. Le Guin's Young Adult Novels." Extrapolation 47.3 (Winter 2006): 427-44. Special issue on Ursula K. Le Guin.
* "Purposeful Movement Among People and Places: The Sense of Home in Ursula K. Le Guin?s Fiction for Children and Adults." Extrapolation 41.4 (Winter 2000): 338-50.
* "Speaking to the Needs of Genre: Le Guin's Ethics of Audience." The Lion and the Unicorn: A Critical Journal of Children's Literature 24.1 (2000): 128-42. (Reprinted in Children's Literature Review 91 (2003), Gale Publishing)
* "Speaking Across the Spaces Between Us: Ursula Le Guin's Dialogic Use of Character in Children's and Adult Literature." Para*doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 2.3-4 (1996): 516-30.
 
; Fadiman, Anne. 
* "Ursula K Le Guin: Voyager to the Inner Land." Life v. 9 (April 1986), pages 23-25.
 
; Fitting, Peter. 
* "The Turn from Utopia in Recent Feminist Fiction." in Libby Falk Jones, Sarah Webster Goodwin, editors, Feminism, Utopia, and Narrative. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1990. pages 141-158. about: Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, Suzette Haden Elgin's Native Tongue, Zoe Ann Fairbairns Benefits, and Ursula K Le Guin's Always Coming Home
 
; Greenberg, M. H., and J. D. Olander, editors.
* Ursula K. Le Guin (1979) anthology
 
; Hatfield, Len.
* "From Master to Brother: Shifting the Balance of Authority in Ursula K. Le Guin's Farthest Shore and Tehanu." Children's Literature v. 21 (1993). Response by Perry Nodelman in Children's Literature 23 (1995).
 
; Keulen, Margarete.
* Radical Imagination: Feminist Conceptions of the Future in Ursula Le Guin, Marge Piercy, and Sally Miller Gearhart.
 
; Klarer, Mario. 
* "Gender and the `Simultaneity Principle': Ursula Le Guin's The Dispossessed." Mosaic (Winnipeg, Manitoba) v. 25 (Spring 1992), pages 107-121.
 
; Lefanu, Sarah.
* "The King Is Pregnant." Guardian Jan. 3, 2004. Available at http://books.guardian.co.uk/print/0,,4828125-110738,00.html . (on The Left Hand of Darkness)
* Essay, Spare Rib 1975 (on The Left Hand of Darkness).
 
; Lem, Stanislaw. 
* SF Commentary 24, November 1971, pages 22-24. Review of Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness. Originally published in Quarber Merkur no. 25 and translated from the German by Franz Rottensteiner and revised by Bruce Gillespie.
 
; McKinley, Robin. 
* "Book Review: Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea." The New York Times Book Review v. 95 (May 20 1990) page 38.
 
; Parrinder, P. 
* "The Alien Encounter: Or, Ms. Brown and Mrs. Le Guin." Science Fiction Studies Volume 3, Part 1. (1976). Reprinted in P. Parrinder (ed.) SF: A Critical Guide: London: Longman, 1979: pages 148-161.
 
; Pegg, Barry. 
* "Down to Earth: Terrain, Territory, and the Language of Realism in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed." Michigan Academician XXVII Number 4 (August 1995), pages 481-492.
 
 
; Rass, Rebecca. 
* Ursula Le Guin's "The Left Hand of Darkness": A Critical Commentary (Monarch Notes). Hungry Minds, Inc.: 1990 (ISBN 067168759X)
 
; Reginald, Robert, and George Slusser, eds. 
* Zephyr and Boreas, Winds of Change in the Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin (San Bernadino, CA: Borgo Press, 1997)
 
; Rhodes, Jewel P. 
* "Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness: Androgyny and the Feminist Utopian vision." Women and Utopia. Ed. Marleen Barr and Nicholas O. Smith. New York: University Press of America, 1983.
 
; Rochelle, Warren G. 
* Communities of the Heart: The Rhetoric of Myth in the Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin (Liverpool Univ. Press: 2000; ISBN 0853238863)
 
; Science Fiction Studies 
* Volume 2, Part 3. Number 7. (November 1975). Special Issue, entitled "The Science Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin."
 
; Selinger, Bernard. 
* Le Guin and Identity in Contemporary Fiction (Studies in Speculative Fiction, No. 16); UMI Research Press: November 1987 (ISBN 083571831X)
 
; Slusser, George Edgar. 
* The Farthest Shores of Ursula K. Le Guin (chapbook, 1976)
 
; Spector, Judith A. 
* "The Functions of Sexuality in the Science Fiction of Russ, Piercy, and Le Guin." in Donald Palumbo, editor, Erotic Universe: Sexuality and Fantastic Literature. New York: Greenwood, 1986. pages 197-207.
 
 
 
 
; Welton, Ann. 
* "Earthsea Revisited: Tehanu and Feminism (Ursula Le Guin has never shrunk from addressing large issues)" Voice of Youth Advocates Volume 14 (April 1991) pages 14-16. Related: Miles, Margaret A., Discussion, Volume 14, December 1991, pages 301-302.
 
 
 
 
 
; Margaret A. Miles.
* "'Earthsea Revisited' Revisited': Reply to A. Welton." Voice of Youth Advocates v. 14 (Dec. 1991): pp. 301-302.
 
; Alice Mills.
* "Burning Women in Ursula K. Le Guin's Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea."
 
; Victoria Myers.
* "Conversational Technique in Ursula Le Guin: A Speech-Act Analysis." Science Fiction Studies v. 10 (Nov. 1983): pp. 306-316.
 
; Jewel P. Rhodes.
* "Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness: Androgyny and the Feminist Utopian vision." Women and Utopia. Ed. Marleen Barr and Nicholas O. Smith. New York: University Press of America, 1983.
 
; George Woodcock.
* "The Equilibrations of Freedom: Part 2: Notes on the Novels of Ursula K. Le Guin," Georgia Straight v. 10 (Oct. 28 - Nov. 4, 1976): pp. 6-7.
 
; Qingyun Wu.
* Female Rule in Chinese and English Literary Utopias. Liverpool University Press. (ISBN 0-85323-570-8 hardback; 0-85323-580-5 paperback)
 
; J. R. Wytenbroek.
* "Always Coming Home: Pacificism and Anarchy in Le Guin's Latest Utopia." Extrapolation v. 28 (Winter 1987), pages 330-339.




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This is not necessarily a "complete" bibliography of scholarship on this author. Rather, it is a selective bibliography of feminist SF scholarship, or scholarship of particular interest to feminist SF scholars.



Scholarship and criticism on Ursula K. Le Guin

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• Reviews on Le Guin
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Entries in Reference Books

  • Authors and Artists for Young Adults, Vol 9, Gale, 1992
  • Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography 1968-1988, Gale, 1989
  • Contemporary Literary Criticism Vol 8, Gale, 1978; Vol 13, 1980; Vol 22, 1982; Vol 45, 1987; Vol 71, 1992;
  • Dictionary of Literary Biography by Andrew Gordon, Vol 52, Gale, 1986
  • Children's Literature Review Vol 3, Gale, 1978; Vol 28, 1992
  • Dictionary of Literary Biography by Brian Attebery, Vol 8, Gale, 1981
  • Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy, ed. by Robin Reid

Study Guides

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