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URSULA K. LE GUINUrsula K. Le Guin's Official Website | You Tube excerpts: 10-minute analysis | A Parody (~4 minutes) |
Other General Resources:
- DeathRay Site on Le Guin
- Doce Moradas: a Spanish language Website devoted to U. K. Le Guin
- Le Guin's World - Swedish site
- Laurence Hinman's University of San Diego Ethics Project | Utilitarianism
Online Articles
- William James' "The Moral Philosopher and the Moral Life" (1891) -- primary document in philosophy
- Paul Kincaid's' A Look at Ursula K. Le Guin's "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas" -- article (Vector Magazine, 2006)
- Joseph William Singer's "Something Important in Humanity" -- scholarly essay from Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review (2002)
- Walking Away from Guantanamo: Ursula K. Le Guin's Parable for Our Grotesque Times" (March 2007) -- personal essay
Articles/books available from databases, library catalogue, or stacks: (in progress)
Biography and bibliography,
on her official site | An audio
photo credit Marian Wood Kolisch
A Few Words to a Young Writer:
Socrates said, "The misuse of language induces evil in the soul." He wasn't talking about grammar. To misuse language is to use it the way politicians and advertisers do, for profit, without taking responsibility for what the words mean. Language used as a means to get power or make money goes wrong: it lies. Language used as an end in itself, to sing a poem or tell a story, goes right, goes towards the truth. // A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls. Story-tellers and poets spend their lives learning that skill and art of using words well. And their words make the souls of their readers stronger, brighter, deeper. --U. K. Le Guin--
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