This book critically examines Le Guin's fiction for all ages, and it will be of great interest to her many admirers and to all students and scholars of children's literature.

The most accessible approach yet to children s literature and narrative theory, Telling Children s Stories is a comprehensive collection of never-before-published essays by an international slate of scholars that offers a broad yet in-depth assessment of narrative strategies unique to children s literature.The volume is divided into four interrelated sections: Genre Templates and Transformations, Approaches to the Picture Book, Narrators and Implied Readers, and Narrative Time. Mike Cadden s introduction considers the links between the various essays and topics, as well as their...

Over the past several years, the question of men's relation to feminism has become a fiercely and sometimes bitterly debated subject. Engendering Men demonstrates the creative impact that feminist modes of inquiry have already had on a new generation of male critics. In the wake of feminism, many men have found it imperative to begin the task of retheorizing the male position in our culture. This collection of new essays brings together seventeen male critics whose work - on poetry, fiction, the Broadway stage, film and television, and broader cultural and psychoanalytic texts - is opening up...

Over the past several years, the question of men's relation to feminism has become a fiercely and sometimes bitterly debated subject. 'Engendering Men' demonstrates the creative impact that feminist modes of inquiry have already had on a new generation of male critics.