Schemata of estrangement in Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed

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ID21599524
AutoresRichard J Whitt (0000-0002-5249-671X, University of Nottingham, autor correspondente)
Ano2024
Volume33
Fascículo2
Páginas111-129
Data de publicação2024-05-01
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoLanguage and Literature International Journal of Stylistics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0963-9470 • E-ISSN: 1461-7293
EditoraSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/09639470241240923
OpenAlexW4393029188
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas26

Ursula Le Guin’s novel The Dispossessed (1974) is the first literary treatment of anarchic utopianism, presenting the society on the moon Anarres as operating on social principles lacking any sort of State or governmental oversight (known in the novel as Odonianism). Scholarship on Le Guin’s novel has focused primarily on the overt political and philosophical aspects of the text, while the scant linguistic scholarship goes no further than uncovering fairly superficial aspects of Le Guin’s invented language of Anarres, Pravic. This article investigates exactly how Le Guin presents a richly detailed conceptualisation of an anarchic society to readers on a planet full of states. This is generally achieved through the technique of estrangement (defamiliarisation), and more precisely, by various means of schema disruption

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