Introducing Le Guin Unit 1 Objective: Show how Tolkien and Lewis developed forms of as part of a political project reacting to the "dis-enchantment" of modernity. Unit 2 Objective: Show how Le Guin and Rowling repurpose forms of medievalist fantasy to unique ends-different political aims, Other medievalist fantasy authors: . Oxford School: . Susan Cooper; Diana Wynne Jones; Kevin Crossley-Holland; Phillip . From outside Oxford: . Ursula K. Le Guin; J.K. Rowling; George R.R. Ursula Le Guin Born in Berkeley in Died in Portland, OR in Prolific writer of speculative fiction (both science fiction and Harold Bloom: "Le Guin, more than , has raised fantasy to high literature, for our time." Was initially hesitant to write a fantasy novel for teens what changed her mind: "the fact that fantasy isn't 'for' a certain age but is a accessible to anybody who reads it." Commonalities with Tolkien and Lewis: Belief that fantasy not originally for children, but has been "shunted" off on children by "modernist ideology" . Tolkien: "fairy-stories have..been to the 'nursery"" Inherits tradition of fantasy that draws heavily on English and Northern European (Scandinavian and Germanic) mythologies Use of paratextual elements like and Original, subversive elements: Main character is a Main struggle is not a between good and evil, but is an internal struggle