Dancing at the Edge of the World

Dancing at the Edge of the World is a 1989 nonfiction collection by Ursula K. Le Guin.

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1989 - Nonfiction - Ursula K. Le Guin

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The works are divided into two categories: talks and essays, and book and movie reviews. Within the categories, the works are organized chronologically, and are further marked by what Le Guin calls the Guide Ursuline -- a system of symbols denoting the main theme of the works. The four themes with which she categorizes the essays are feminism, social responsibility, literature and travel.

Related Topics:
Essay - Review - Feminism - Social responsibility - Literature - Travel

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The works include:

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• Talks and Essays
• 1976: "The Space Crone" (feminism, social responsibility)
• 1976: "Is Gender Necessary? Redux" (literature, feminism)
• 1978: "Moral and Ethical Implications of Family Planning" (feminism, social responsibility)
• 1979: "It Was a Dark and Stormy Night" (literature)
• 1979: "Working on 'The Lathe'" (literature)
• 1980: "Some Thoughts on Narrative" (literature)
• 1981: "World-Making" (literature)
• 1981: "Hunger" (social responsibility)
• 1981: "Places Names" (travel)
• 1982: "The Princess" (social responsibility, feminism)
• 1982: "A Non-Euclidean View of California as a Cold Place to Be" (literature)
• 1982: "Facing It" (social responsibility)
• 1983: "Reciprocity of Prose and Poetry" (literature)
• 1983: "A Left-Handed Commencement Address" (feminism, social responsibility)
• 1983: "Along the Platte" (travel)
• 1984: "Whose Lathe?" (literature, social responsibility)
• 1984: "The Woman Without Answers" (literature)
• 1984: "The Second Report of the Shipwrecked Foreigner to the Kadanh of Derb" (social responsibility)
• 1985: "Room 9, Car 1430" (travel)
• 1985: "Theodora" (literature)
• 1985: "Science Fiction and the Future" (literature, social responsibility)
• 1985: "The Only Good Author?" (literature)
• 1986: "Bryn Mawr Commencement Address" (feminism, social responsibility)
• 1986: "Woman / Wilderness" (feminism, social responsibility)
• 1986: "The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction" (feminism, literature)
• 1986: "Heroes" (literature, feminism)
• 1986: "Prospects for Women in Writing" (feminism)
• 1986: "Text, Silence, Performance" (literature)
• 1987: "'Who is Responsible?'" (literature)
• 1987: "Conflict" (literature)
• 1987: "'Where Do You Get Your Ideas From?'" (literature)
• 1988: "Over the Hills and a Great Way Off" (travel)
• 1988: "The Fisherwoman's Daughter" (feminism, literature)
• Reviews
• 1977: "The Dark Tower, C.S. Lewis"
• 1978: "Close Encoutners, Star Wars, and the Tertium Quid"
• 1979: "Shikasta, by Doris Lessig"
• 1980: "Two from Venom"
• 1980: "Freddy's Book and Vlemk, by John Gardner"
• 1980: "The Marriage Between Zones Three, Four and Five, by Doris Lessig"
• 1980: "Kalila and Dimna, retold by Ramsay Wood"
• 1980: "Unfinished Business, by Maggie Scarf"
• 1980: "Italian Folktales, by Italo Calvino"
• 1981: "Peake's Progress, by Mervyn Peake"
• 1983: "The Sentimental Agents, by Doris Lessig"
• 1984: "Difficult Loves, by Italo Calvino"
• 1984: "'Forsaking Kingdoms': Five Poets"
• 1985: "The Mythology of North America, by John Bierhorst"
• 1986: "Silent Partners, by Eugene Linden"
• 1986: "Outside the Gates, by Molly Gloss"
• 1986: "Golden Days, by Carolyn See"