This book explores the use of imaginative literature as persuasion, focusing on the science fiction of Ursula Le Guin and her rhetorical use of myth. The author concludes that Le Guin (like Emerson, Peirce, Thoreau, Whitman, and Dewey) is a romantic/pragmatic rhetorician. In that sense, she is arguing for what Vico argued for in the eighteenth century: that knowledge should be seen and studied as an integrated whole, and that Cartesian thinking is only part of how humans make meaning.
- ISBN10 0853238863
- ISBN13 9780853238867
- Publish Date 1 November 2000
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 11 April 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Liverpool University Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 208
- Language English