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Q: A real meaning of a Bramarbas or a Holofernes?

user58207Before long the madness of intoxication broke out; they attacked one another with fists and knives, and it looked as if they would do murder. Suddenly the Saltmaster’s son, who had stood looking on, leaped among them, caught two of the combatants by the hair and knocked their heads together with ...

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BESW
BESW
7:04 AM
 
 
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Christophe Strobbe
Christophe Strobbe
9:18 AM
@GarethRees Thanks. I had been aware of The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed and I wanted to know if these books can be read in isolation or only after reading the preceding parts of the Hainish cycle.
@GarethRees The same applies to the Earthsea series.
@GarethRees The only SF I've read so far is Liu Cixin's Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy (The Three-Body Problem etc.) and that can't be considered feminist (especially when the American edition had to change a few things that were seen as sexist ...).
@Randal'Thor I would appreciate that :-)
 
Gareth Rees
Gareth Rees
9:47 AM
@ChristopheStrobbe The Hainish novels don't have a continuous narrative and can be read in any order. They get more sophisticated as Le Guin matures as a writer, so there is nothing to be lost by starting with the later ones. Which one will suit you best probably depends on your interests: The Left Hand of Darkness is about gender; The Dispossessed political–economic sociology; and The Telling colonialism.
@ChristopheStrobbe The "Earthsea" novels, by contrast, do have a continuous narrative so you should start at the beginning.
 
Christophe Strobbe
Christophe Strobbe
@GarethRees Thanks, that's very helpful :-)
The anthropological aspect of Always Coming Home also sounds interesting.
 
Gareth Rees
Gareth Rees
@ChristopheStrobbe There's an important subgenre of feminist sf, including utopias (Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time), separatism (Griffith, Ammonite), satire (Russ, We Who Are About to ...), techology/gender relations (Bujold, Ethan of Athos) and so on. Le Guin was an influential writer in this tradition.
 
Gareth Rees
Gareth Rees
10:09 AM
There's a good summary by Helen Merrick and Lisa Tuttle at the SFE.
 
 
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Bookworm
Bookworm
12:02 PM
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Q: On a quote of Hegel in L'été (Summer) of Camus

Paul-BenjaminThis is my first question on this website, so I am not completely sure that this is the most adequate one (I could have also tried Philosophy stack exchange). In the chapter L'exil d'Hélène of L'été (Summer, Helen's exile) of Camus, there is a quote attributed to Hegel : "Seule la ville modern...

french-literature quote-identification albert-camus
 
Christophe Strobbe
Christophe Strobbe
12:43 PM
@GarethRees I've made a note of those names. The library here has only three of Le Guin's book in English, so I doubt they have any of the other ones.
 
 
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b_jonas
b_jonas
2:44 PM
A homework question. Just what we need.
 
Bookworm
Bookworm
2:59 PM
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Q: Stopping by woods in a snowy evening is a labdscape not a movable picrure .elaborate

MohammedGamalColud u please assist me on answering these questions Stopping by woods in a snowy evening can be read in 2 levels .elaborate And Stopping by woods in a snowy evening is a labdscape not a movable picrure .elaborate

character-analysis english-renaissance-theater
 
 
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Bookworm
Bookworm
10:10 PM
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Q: Why didn’t Theodore Roethke serve in WW2?

IanKWhy didn’t Theodore Roethke serve in WW2? He should have been in his mid 30s during WW2, but I can’t find any references to his service (or lack of service). Anyone know?

poetry
 
 
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user15026
11:44 PM
 
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She claims this is because people have bought other books with "cocky" in the title and thought they were hers and were disappointed and wrote her letters to express their disappointment.
 
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