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==Monographs and Collections==
; [[Susan M. Bernardo]].
* ''[[Ursula K. Le Guin: A Critical Companion]]'' (Series: Critical Companions to Popular Contemporary Writers). ISBN 0313332258, Hardcover.
; [[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.
; [[Barbara Bucknall]].
* ''[[Ursula K. Le Guin by Barbara Bucknall|Ursula K. Le Guin]]''. New York: Frederick Ungar, 1981.
; [[Amy M. Clarke]].
* ''[[Ursula K. Le Guin's Journey to Post-Feminism]]''. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010. 209 pp.
; [[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)
; [[Martin Harry Greenberg]] and [[Joseph D. Olander]], editors.
* ''Ursula K. Le Guin'' (1979) anthology (Taplinger, 1979).
; [[Suzanne Elizabeth Reid]].
* ''[[Presenting Ursula K. Le Guin]]''. New York: Twayne; London, Prentice Hall, 1997.
; [[Warren G. Rochelle]].
* ''[[Communities of the Heart: The Rhetoric of Myth in the Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin]]'', Liverpool Univ Press, 2001
; [[Bernard Selinger]].
* ''[[Le Guin and Identity in Contemporary Fiction]]'' (1987)
; [[Charlotte Spivack]]. 
* ''[[Ursula K. Le Guin (Spivack)|Ursula K. Le Guin]]'' (Twayne Pub.; ISBN 0805774300; reprint ed. March 1984).
; [[G. E. Slusser]].
* ''[[The Farthest Shores of Ursula K. Le Guin]]'', Borgo Press, 1976.
; [[Kathryn Ross Wayne]]. 
* ''[[Redefining Moral Education|Redefining Moral Education: Life, Le Guin and Language]]'' (1995; Austin & Winfield: Lanham, Maryland, 1996, ISBN 1880921855; 162 pp). Examines The Word for World Is Forest and Always Coming Home, and analyzes Le Guin's work in the context of ecofeminism and other ecological movements. Looks specifically at education and language.
; [[Donna R. White]].
* ''[[Dancing With Dragons|Dancing With Dragons: Ursula K. Le Guin and the Critics]]''. (1998; Ontario: Camden House: March 1999; ISBN 1571130349)
==Special Issues==
* [[Ursula Le Guin issue - Science Fiction Studies (1976)|''Ursula Le Guin'' Issue]], ''Science Fiction Studies'', March 1976.
==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 ...
; David Bratman
* Ursula K. Le Guin: A Primary Bibliography, compiled by David S. Bratman (Oakland, CA: Potlatch 4, 1995). This bibliography is extraordinarily comprehensive.  It can be purchased for $12 from the editor:
:: David Bratman
:: P.O. Box 662
:: Los Altos CA 94023
:: email: ''dbratman@genie.idt.net''
More information on the bibliography can be found at his web page, at http://www.stanford.edu/~dbratman/leguin.html
; Cogell, Elizabeth C.
* Ursula K. Le Guin: A Primary and Secondary Bibliography (G. K. Hall: 1983, ISBN 0816181551)
==Dissertations and Theses==
; [[Sylvie Berard]].
*  Je pense "or" je suis. Discours et identite dans la SF cote femmes. D'U.K. Le Guin a E. Vonarburg. [I Think Theref[or]e I Am. Discourse and Identity in SF on the Women's Side. From U. K. Le Guin to E. Vonarburg.]. Ph.D. Dissertation, Universite du Quebec a Montreal, 1995.
; [[Jim Bittner]].
* ''[[Approaches to the Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin]]'' (Dissertation, University of Wisconsin, 1979). UMI Research Press, 1984; June 1989 ISBN 0835715736.
; [[A. Glover]].
* [http://eprints.ru.ac.za/1001/01/Glover-PhD-2008.pdf "'A complex and delicate web': a comparative study of selected speculative novels by Margaret Atwood, Ursula K. Le Guin, Doris Lessing and Marge Piercy"] (2008), thesis.
; [[Donna Saucier Maloy]].
* ''[[Ursula K. Le Guin and Her West Coast Stories]]'' University of Houston-Clear Lake. 2000, 70 pp.
==Interviews==
*  "Vertex Interviews Ursula K. Le Guin," with Gene Van Troyer, Vertex 2 (Dec. 1974).
*  "Ursula K. Le Guin Interview: Tricks, Anthropology Create New Worlds," with Barry Barth, Portland Scribe 4 (May 17-23, 1975): pp. 8-9.
*  "Ursula K. Le Guin: An Interview," with Paul Walker. Luna Monthly 63 (March 1976): pp. 1-7.
*  Interview: "The Lathe of Heaven," Horizon (Jan. 1980): pp. 33-36.
*  "A Conversation with Ursula K. Le Guin." Para-Doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres, v. 1, no. 1 (1995): pp. 39-57.


==Entries in Reference Books==
==Entries in Reference Books==
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==Study Guides==
==Study Guides==
* [http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/science_fiction/dispossessed.html Paul Brians' Study Guide on ''The Dispossessed'']
* [http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/science_fiction/dispossessed.html Paul Brians' Study Guide on ''The Dispossessed'']
==assorted list==
===A===
; [[Merritt Abrash]].
* "Le Guin's The Field of Vision: A Minority View on Ultimate Truth." Extrapolation v. 26 (Spring 1985), pages 5-15.
; [[Pamela J. Annas]].
* "New Worlds, New Words: Androgyny in Feminist Science Fiction." Science Fiction Studies v. 5, pt. 2, no. 15 (July 1978): pp. 143-56. [On Le Guin among others.]
; [[Rosemarie Arbur]].
* "Beyond Feminism, the Self Intact: Woman's Place in the Work of Ursula K. Le Guin" in Thomas J. Remington, Selected Proceedings of the 1978 Science Fiction Research Association National Conference (Cedar Falls, Iowa: University of Northern Iowa, 1979). pages 146-163.
===B===
; [[Soren Baggeson]].
* "Utopian and Dystopian Pessimism: Le Guin's The Word for World is Forest and Tiptree's "We Who Stole the Dream." Science Fiction Studies v. 14 (1987): pages 34-43.
; [[Douglas Barbour]].
* "The Lathe of Heaven: Taoist Dream," Algol, no. 21 (Nov. 1973): pp. 22-24.
* "Wholeness and Balance in the Hainish Novels of Le Guin." Science-Fiction Studies v. 1, 3 (Spring 1974): pp. 164-172.
* "Wholeness and Balance: An Addendum," Science-Fiction Studies 2, 3 (Nov. 1975): pp. 248-249.
; [[Marleen Barr]].
* "Charles Bronson, Samurai, and Other Feminine Images: A Transactive Response to The Left Hand of Darkness" in ''[[Future Females|Future Females: A Critical Anthology]]'' edited by Marlene S. Barr (Bowling Green State University Popular Press: 1981), pp. 138-154.
*  "Searoad Chronicles of Klatsand as a Pathway toward New Directions in Feminist Science Fiction: Or Who's Afraid of Connecting Ursula Le Guin to Virginia Woolf?" Foundation: The Review of Science Fiction (London, England) v. 60 (Spring 1994) pages 58-67.
; [[Susan Bassnett]].
* "Remaking the Old World: Ursula Le Guin and the American Tradition." in ''[[Where No Man Has Gone Before|Where No Man Has Gone Before: Women and Science Fiction]]'' edited by Lucie Armitt. London: Routledge, 1991: pp. 50-66.
; [[Miriam Berkley]].
* "Ursula K. Le Guin." Publishers Weekly v. 229 (May 23 1986), page 72.
; [[Martin Bickman]].
* "Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness: Form and Content," Science-Fiction Studies, v. 4, no. 1 (March 1977): pp. 42-47.
; [[Judah Bierman]].
* "Ambiguity in Utopia: The Dispossessed." Science-Fiction Studies, v. 2, no. 3 (# 7) (Nov. 1975): pp. 249-256.
; [[James W. Bittner]]
* "Chronosophy, Aesthetics, and Ethics in Le Guin's The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia." in No Place Else: Explorations in Utopian and Dystopian Fiction edited by Eric S. Rabkin, Martin H. Greenberg, and Joseph D. Olander. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1983: pp. 244-270.
*  Approaches to the Fiction of Ursula K. LeGuin Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1984. (Studies in Speculative Fiction No. 4) (0-8357-2013-6)
; [[Harold Bloom]].
* "Ursula K. Le Guin" in ''Modern Critical Views'' (1985)
* ''[[Ursula K. Le Guin by Harold Bloom|Ursula K. Le Guin]]'' (1986)
* "Le Guin's ''[[The Left Hand of Darkness]]''" in ''Modern Critical Interpretations'' (1987)
; [[Joanne Blum]].
* "Return to the Myth in Fictions by Le Guin, Bryant, and Tiptree." in Transcending Gender: The Male / Female Double in Women's Fiction. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1988: pp. 61-76.
===C===
; [[Mike Cadden]].
* 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.
* "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.
; [[Eleanor Cameron]].
* "High Fantasy: ''[[A Wizard of Earthsea]]''," The Horn Book Magazine 47 (April 1971): pp. 129-138.
; [[Elizabeth Cummins]].
* "The Land-Lady's Homebirth: Revisiting Ursula K. Le Guin's Worlds." Science-Fiction Studies v. 17 (July 1990): pp. 153-166.
* Understanding Ursula K. Le Guin. Rev. ed., 1993: University of South Carolina Press.
; [[Elizabeth Cummins Cogell]].
* ''[[Ursula K. Le Guin: A Primary and Secondary Bibliography]]''.
* "Setting as Analogue to Characterization in Ursula Le Guin," Extrapolation, v. 18, no. 2 (1977): pp. 131-141.
; [[Jerre Collins]].
* "Leaving Omelas: Questions of Faith and Understanding." Studies in Short Fiction v. 27 (Fall 1990): pp. 525-535.
===D===
; [[Joe De Bolt]].
* Editor, ''[[Ursula K. Le Guin: Voyager to Inner Lands and Outer Space]]''. Port Washington, NY & London: Kennikat Press & National University Publications, 1979. Introduction by Barry N. Malzberg.
; [[Samuel R. Delany]]
*  "Book Review: Always Coming Home." The New York Times Book Review v. 90 (Sept. 29, 1985), pp. 31+.
*  "To Read The Dispossessed" in ''[[The Jewel-Hinged Jaw]]'', pp. 218-283. (Elizabethtown, NY: Dragon Press, 1977; New York: Berkley, 1978).
; [[Barbara Drake]].
* "Two Utopias: Marge Piercy's Woman on the Edge of Time and Ursula Le Guin's The Dispossed" in Sheila Roberts & Yvonne Pacheco Tevis, Editors, Still the Frame Holds: Essays on Women Poets and Writers (Women Writers on Women Writers). San Bernardino, California: Borgo Press, 1993, pp. 109-127.
; [[Denise Du Pont]].
* editor, ''[[Women of Vision|Women of Vision: Essays By Women Writing Science Fiction]]''. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988. Includes essays by Ursula K. Le Guin, Virginia Kidd, Anne McCaffrey, Patricia C. Hodgell, Alice Sheldon (James Tiptree), Suzette Haden Elgin, Lee Killough, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Eleanor Arnason, Joan D. Vinge, Pamela Sargent, and Suzy McKee Charnas.
===E===
; [[Neil Easterbrook]].
* "Anarchy, State, Heterotopia: The Political Imagination in Heinlein, Le Guin, and Delany". In ''Political Science Fiction'', ed. Clyde Wilcox & Donald Hassler, pp. 43-75. University of South Carolina Press, 1997.
; [[Richard D. Erlich]].
* "Ursula K. Le Guin and Arthur C. Clarke on Immanence, Transcendence, and Massacres." Extrapolation v. 28 (Summer 1987): pp. 105-129.
===F===
; [[Anne Fadiman]]. 
* "Ursula K Le Guin: Voyager to the Inner Land." Life v. 9 (April 1986), pages 23-25.
; [[John Fekete]].
* "The Dispossessed and Triton: Act and System in Utopian Science Fiction." Science-Fiction Studies, no. 18 (July 1979): pp. 129-143.
; [[Sheila Finch-Reyner]].
* "Paradise Lost: The Prison at the Heart of Le Guin's Utopia." Extrapolation v. 26 (Fall 1985), pages 240-248.
; [[Kathe Davis Finney]]. Kathe Finney Davis?
*  "The Days of Future Past, or Utopian's Lessing and Le Guin Fight Future Nostalgia," in Donald M. Hassler, editor, Patterns of the Fantastic (Academic Programming at Chicon IV.) (Island, WA: Starmont House, 1983; San Bernadino, Calif: Borgo Press, 1983), pages 31-40.
; [[Peter Fitting]]. 
* "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
===G===
; [[Robert Galbreath]].
* "Holism, Openness and the Other: Le Guin's Use of the Occult," Science-Fiction Studies 7, 1 (March 1980): pp. 36-48.
; [[John Getz]].
* "A Peace-Studies Approach to The Left Hand of Darkness." Mosaic (Winnipeg, Manitoba) v. 21 (Spring 1988): pp. 203-214.
===H===
; [[Len Hatfield]].
* "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): pp. 43-65.
* "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).
; [[N. B. Hayles]]
* "Androgyny, Ambivalence, and Assimilation in The Left Hand of Darkness, in Ursula K. Le Guin, edited by Joseph D. Olander and Martin Harry Greenberg (New York: Taplinger, 1979).
; [[Elyce Rae Helford]].
*  "Going 'Native': Le Guin, Misha, and the Politics of Literature." Foundation (forthcoming)
; [[Norman N. Holland]].
* "You, U. K. Le Guin" in Future Females: A Critical Anthology edited by Marlene S. Barr (Bowling Green State University Popular Press: 1981), pp. 125-137.
; [[Carol P. Hovanec]]
* "Visions of Nature in The Word for World is Forest: A Mirror of the American Consciousness." Extrapolation, v. 30, no. 1 (Spring 1989): pp. 84-92.
; [[Keith N. Hull]]
* "What Is Human? Ursula Le Guin and Science Fiction's Great Theme." Modern Fiction Studies v. 32 (Spring 1986): pp. 65-74.
; [[John Huntington]].
* "Public and Private Imperatives in Le Guin's Novels" Science Fiction Studies 2, 3 (v. 7) (Nov. 1975): pp. 237-243.
===J===
; [[Naomi Jacobs]].
*  "Beyond Stasis and Symmetry: Lessing, Le Guin, and the Remodeling of Utopia." Extrapolation 29, no. 1 (1988): pages 33-45; reprinted in Utopian Studies II, edited by Michael S. Cummings and Nicholas D. Smith, editors; Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1989: pp. 109-117.
; [[Fredric Jameson]].
* "World Reduction in Le Guin: The Emergence of Utopian Narrative," Science-Fiction Studies 2, 3 (Nov. 1975): pp. 237-243.
; [[A. Jenkins]]
* "Knowing and Geography in [[Octavia Butler]], [[Ursula K. Le Guin]] and [[Maureen McHugh]]", ''Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts'' (2006)
; [[Jim Jose]].
* "Reflections on the Politics of Le Guin's Narrative Shifts." Science-Fiction Studies v. 18 (July 1991): pp. 180-197.
===K===
; [[David Ketterer]].
* "The Left Hand of Darkness: Ursula K. Le Guin's Archetypal 'Winter-Journey'", in New Worlds for Old: The Apocalyptic Imagination, Science Fiction and American Literature, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1974.
; [[Margarete Keulen]].
* Radical Imagination: Feminist Conceptions of the Future in Ursula Le Guin, Marge Piercy, and Sally Miller Gearhart (Peter Lang Publishing: 1991, ISBN 3631427530)
; [[Diana Khouri]].
* "Potere, impotenza, utopia: la fantascienza di Ursula K. Le Guin, Michel Jeury e Marge Piercy" (Italian) ("Power, impotence and utopia..."), in La fantascienza e la critica. Testi del convegno internazionale di Palermo, Milano, Feltrinelli, 1980, pages 222-231. This essay is about non-transcendent utopia in Marge Piercy's work. Utopia come from a condition of total dispossession, when you dont' have nothing else to lose you can only try to built a real immanent utopia. Khouri says that utopia is aim of life against death and immobility; according to her, utopia is revolution. -- at
; [[Nadia Khouri]].
* "The Dialectics of Power: Utopia in the Science Fiction of Le Guin, Jeury and Piercy." Science Fiction Studies Volume 7, no. 1 (March 1980): pages 49-61.
; [[Mario Klarer]].
* "Gender and the 'Simultaneity Principle': Ursula Le Guin's The Dispossessed." Mosaic (Winnipeg, Manitoba) v. 25 (Spring 1992), pages 107-121.
; Klein.
* "Le Guin's 'Aberrant' Opus: Escaping the Trap of Discontent." Science-Fiction Studies (1977): pp. 287-294.
===L===
; [[Sarah Lefanu]].
* "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).
* "Inner Space and the Outer Lands: Ursula K. Le Guin," in ''[[In the Chinks of the World's Machine]]'' (1988), pp. 130-146.
; [[Stanislaw Lem]].
* 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.
; [[Alexis Lothian]].
* "Grinding Axes and Balancing Oppositions: The Transformation of Feminism in Ursula K. Le Guin's Science Fiction", ''Extrapolation'' v.7, n.3 (Winter 2006), pp. 380-395.
===M===
; [[Robin McKinley]].
* "Book Review: Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea." The New York Times Book Review v. 95 (May 20 1990) page 38.
; [[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."
; [[Tom Moylan]].
* ''[[Demand the Impossible|Demand the Impossible: Science Fiction and the Utopian Imagination]]''. New York & London: Methuen, 1986. (Studies of Joanna Russ's The Female Man; Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed; Marge Piercy's Woman on the Edge of Time; and Samuel Delany's Triton.)
; [[Victoria Myers]].
* "Conversational Technique in Ursula Le Guin: A Speech-Act Analysis." Science Fiction Studies v. 10 (Nov. 1983): pp. 306-316.
===N-O===
; [[Holle Nester]].
* Shadow of the Past: Darstellung und Funktion der geschichtlichen Sekundearwelten in J.R.R. Tokien's "The Lord of the Rings", Ursula K. Le Guin's "Earthsea-Tetralogy" und Patricia McKill's "Riddle-Master-Trilogy" (Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier: ISBN 388476084X; 297 pp.)
; [[Rafail Nudelman]].
* "An Approach to the Structure of Le Guin's SF," Science-Fiction Studies, v. 2, no. 3 (Nov. 1975): pp. 210-220.
; [[Joseph D. Olander]] with [[Martin Harry Greenberg]].
* Editors.  Ursula K. Le Guin. New York: Taplinger Publishing Company, 1979.
===P===
; [[P. Parrinder]]. 
* "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.
; [[Wendy Pearson]]
* "The Queer as Traitor, the Traitor as Queer: Denaturalizing Concepts of Nationhood, Species, and Sexuality", Chapter 7 in ''Flashes of the Fantastic: Selected Essays from ''The War of the Worlds'' Centennial, Nineteenth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts'', ed. by David Ketterer. 1998. Greenwood Press: 2004. ISBN 0313316074. pp. 77-92.
:: "I intend in this chapter to demonstrate the ways in which two examples of speculative fiction denaturalize Western discourses of nationhood, species, and sexuality. ... This chapter examines the roles of the two traitors, [[Estraven]] and [[Nicholas Sanders]], in, respectively, [[Ursula K. Le Guin]]'s ''[[The Left Hand of Darkness]]'' and [[Eleanor Arnason]]'s ''[[Ring of Swords]]'' (1993) in order to reveal how and to what extent works of speculative fiction are able to ironically replay the linkage between queerness and treachery in order to interrogate the naturalization of the concepts of nationhood, species, and, in particular, sexuality."
; [[Ellen (Susan) Peel]].
* "Reading Piebald Patterns in Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness." in Women of Other Worlds: Excursions through Science Fiction and Feminism, edited by Helen Merrick and Tess Williams, University of Western Australia Press: Nedlands, 1999: pp. 29-40.
; [[Barry Pegg]]. 
* "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.
; [[Robert Plank]].
*"Ursula K. Le Guin and the Decline of Romantic Love," Science-Fiction Studies, v. 3, no. 1 (March 1976): pp. 36-43.
; [[David L. Porter]].
*"The Politics of Le Guin's Opus," Science-Fiction Studies, v. 2, no. 3 (#7) (Nov. 1975): pp. 243-248.
===R===
; [[Eric S. Rabkin]].
* "Determinism, Free Will and Point of View in Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness," Extrapolation v. 20, no. 1 (Spring 1979): pp. 5-19.
; [[Lisa Hammond Rashley]].
* "Revisioning Gender: Inventing Women in Ursula K. Le Guin's Nonfiction", ''Biography'' v. 30, n.1 (Winter 2007) pp. 22-47.
; [[Rebecca Rass]]. 
* Ursula Le Guin's "The Left Hand of Darkness": A Critical Commentary (Monarch Notes). Hungry Minds, Inc.: 1990 (ISBN 067168759X)
; [[Robert Reginald]] and [[George Slusser]]. 
* Editor, Zephyr and Boreas, Winds of Change in the Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin (San Bernadino, CA: Borgo Press, 1997)
; [[Thomas J. Remington]].
* "A Touch of Difference, A Touch of Love: Theme in Three Stories by Ursula K. Le Guin ["Nine Lives," WWF, "VEMS"]." Extrapolation 18 (Dec. 1976): 28-41. Extrapolation v. 18-19, n. 1 (Dec. 1976): pp. 28-41.
; [[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.
; [[Warren G. Rochelle]].
* Communities of the Heart: The Rhetoric of Myth in the Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin (Liverpool Univ. Press: 2000; ISBN 0853238863)
===S===
; [[Robert Scholes]].
* The Left Hand of Difference: Le Guin & Derrida (1983, Graduate School of Tulane University, New Orleans, LA)
; [[Robert Scholes]] and [[Eric S. Rabkin]].
* Science Fiction: History, Science, Vision. London: Oxford University Press, 1977. [some discussion of Le Guin.]
; ''[[Science Fiction Studies]]'' 
* Special Issue, entitled "The Science Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin." Volume 2, Part 3. Number 7. (November 1975).
; [[Bernard Selinger]]. 
* Le Guin and Identity in Contemporary Fiction (Studies in Speculative Fiction, No. 16); UMI Research Press: November 1987 (ISBN 083571831X); 1988.
; [[T. A. Shippey]]
*"The Magic Art and the Evolution of Words: Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea Trilogy," Mosaic v. 10, no. 2 (Winter 1977): pp. 147-163.
; [[Gordon E. Slethaug]]
*"The Paradoxical Double in Le Guin's A Wizard of Earthsea." Extrapolation v. 27 (Winter 1986) pages 326-333.
; [[George Edgar Slusser]]. 
* The Farthest Shores of Ursula K. Le Guin. The Milford Series: Popular Writers of Today, v. 3. San Bernardino, CA.: The Borgo Press, 1976. (chapbook, 1976)
* "Metamorphoses of the Dragon." in Aliens: The Anthropology of Science Fiction, edited by Slusser and Rabkin (1987): pp. 43-66. Discusses dragons in sf, including specifically Le Guin's Earthsea dragons.
* "Le Guin and the Future of Science Fiction Criticism." Science Fiction Studies v. 18 (March 1991), pages 110-115.
; [[Judith A. Spector]] 
* "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.
; [[Charlotte Spivack]].
* Ursula K. Le Guin (Boston: Twayne, 1984).
; [[Darko Suvin]].
* "Parables of De-Alienation: Le Guin's Widdershins Dance," Science-Fiction Studies, v. 2, no. 3 (no. 7) (Nov. 1975): pp. 265-274.
===T-U-V===
; [[Donald F. Theall]].
* "The Art of Social-Science Fiction: The Ambiguous Utopian Dialectics of Ursula K. Le Guin." Science-Fiction Studies, No. 7 (Nov. 1975): pp. 256-275.
; [[James Tiptree, Jr.]]
* Review of Ursula K. Le Guin's The Lathe of Heaven. Universe SF Review 5, Sept. - Oct. 1975.
; [[John Updike]].
* "Imagining Things," The New Yorker (June 23, 1980): pp. 94-97. [on Le Guin]
; [[Victor Urbanowicz]].
* "Personal and Political in The Dispossessed." Science-Fiction Studies, v. 5, no. 2 (No. 15) (July 1978): pp. 110-118.
===W-X-Y-Z===
; [[Jeanne Murray Walker]].
* "Myth, Exchange and History in The Left Hand of Darkness" in Science Fiction Studies v. 6 (1979).
; [[Ian Watson]].
* "The Forest as Metaphor for Mind: 'The Word for World is Forest' and 'Vaster Than Empires and More Slow.'" Science Fiction Studies Volume 2, No. 3 (Nov 1975): pages 231-236.
* "Le Guin's Lathe of Heaven and the Role of Sick: The False Reality as Mediator." Science-Fiction Studies v. 2, no. 1 (#5) (March 1975): pp. 67-75.
; [[Phillip E. Wegner]].
* "A Map of Utopia's 'Possible Worlds': Zamyatin's ''[[We]]'' and Le Guin's ''[[The Dispossessed]]''" in ''Imaginary Communities: Utopia, the Nation, and the Spatial Histories of Modernity'' (2002, University of California Press)
; [[Ann Welton]]. 
* "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.
; [[Donna Glee Williams]].
* "The Moons of Le Guin and Heinlein." Science Fiction Studies v. 21 (July 1994) pages 164-172.
; [[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.
; [[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

• Dissertations and theses
• Monographs and collections
• Papers and essays by author: A-C ... D-F ... G-J ... K-M ... N-R ... S-U ... V-Z


• Reviews on Le Guin
• Interviews with Le Guin
• Bibliographies and reference materials




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

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