Le Guin 1: The Hideous Bargain
At last we settle in to think about Le Guin’s Omelas story and set aside some common approaches to it. The first of several parts.
Gardens of Imagination – Narrative Utopias
Let’s niche down into a small sub-genre of fantasy and explore our desire for it, the classic utopia!
In Defense of Fantasy
Riddle: What do Beowulf, Palmolive dish liquid, and Sarah Maas have in common? Hint: Ursula K. Le Guin knows!
Stephen King Meets Shel Silverstein: Formalism and Trope in Story
What do a children’s story and horror film have in common? Maybe our Suffering Child question, with very different approaches to it.
Negotiating for Space: Compromise and Flag-Planting
This is getting challenging. What are we to do with the Suffering Child question? And on which form of suffering do I plant my flag of resistance? Dostoevsky and Langston Hughes both offer clues.
Reading: “Rebellion” from Dostoevsky’s ‘The Brothers Karamazov’
Still another famous writer has posed the Le Guin question, and he did it in one of Russia’s most famous novels, The Brothers Karamazov. Here it is.
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