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    STUDIA PHILOLOGIA - Issue no. 1 / 2008  
         
  Article:   BALANCING OPPOSITES. THE FICTIONS OF URSULA K. LE GUIN.

Authors:  BOGDAN ALDEA.
 
       
         
  Abstract:  The present study highlights what we believe to be the fundamental coordinate of Ursula Kroeber Le Guin’s literary creation, namely, the deconstruction of the system of binary opposition central to Western thought. In a brief survey of some of the main novels published by the American author, we examine the manner in which a general pursuit of balance and equilibrium is achieved through the reconciliation of seemingly contradictory elements like good and evil (A Wizard of Earthsea), male and female (The Left Hand of Darkness, The Tombs of Atuan, Tehanu), freedom and constraint (The Dispossessed), and, more generally, discourse and objective reality.

Keywords: science fiction, postmodernism, Ursula K. Le Guin, binary oppositions.
 
         
     
         
         
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