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Cheek by jowl

Author: Ursula K Le Guin
Publisher: Seattle, WA : Aqueduct Press, ©2009.
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Book Description: Aqueduct Press is pleased to announce the release of Cheek by Jowl, a collection of talks and essays on how and why fantasy matters, by Ursula K. Le Guin. In these essays, Le Guin argues passionately that the homogenization of our world makes the work of fantasy essential for helping us break through what she calls ''the reality trap.'' Le Guin writes not only of the pleasures of her own  Read more...
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Ursula K Le Guin
ISBN: 9781933500270 : 1933500271
OCLC Number: 317463483
Notes: "Talk & essays on how & why fantasy matters"--Cover.
Description: 149 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Contents: Assumptions about fantasy --
Wilderness within --
Re-reading Peter Rabbit --
Critics, the monsters, and the fantasists --
Cheek by jowl: animals in children's literature --
Young adult in the YA --
Message about messages --
Why kids want fantasy --
Illustration list --
Bibliography.
Responsibility: by Ursula K. Le Guin.

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Book Description: Aqueduct Press is pleased to announce the release of Cheek by Jowl, a collection of talks and essays on how and why fantasy matters, by Ursula K. Le Guin. In these essays, Le Guin argues passionately that the homogenization of our world makes the work of fantasy essential for helping us break through what she calls ''the reality trap.'' Le Guin writes not only of the pleasures of her own childhood reading, but also about what fantasy means for all of us living in the global twenty-first century.

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