The Dispossessed
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Category : Anarchism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A brilliant physicist attempts to salvage his planet of anarchy.
A brilliant physicist attempts to salvage his planet of anarchy.
Frequently reissued with the same ISBN, but with slightly differing bibliographical details.
One of the very best must-read novels of all time - with a new introduction by Roddy Doyle 'A well told tale signifying a good deal; one to be read again and again' THE TIMES 'The book I wish I had written .
A bleak moon settled by utopian anarchists, Anarres has long been isolated from other worlds, including its mother planet, Urras—a civilization of warring nations, great poverty, and immense wealth.
Bachelor Thesis from the year 2015 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Hannover, language: English, abstract: Ursula K. Le Guin’s" The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia" is a ...
The book concludes with an essay by Le Guin written specially for this volume, in which she reassesses the novel in light of the development of her own thinking over the past 30 years.
... utopian politics " of The Dispossessed . Both tackle head - on a question that recurs throughout the edited volume , specifically the extent to which Le Guin's " ambiguous utopia " poses a challenge to prevailing models of utopian lit ...
The novel describes several walls of different types like hierarchy, superiority, greed, possession, lies or physical boundaries. They appear throughout the novel and get demolished one after another.