Ursula Le Guin's "Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction"
Okay, so you might be reading the title and be like, 'what?!' Don't worry, I get you. I was in the same boat at the beginning of my Myth and Sacred Symbols course. This was by far one of my favorite short stories I read during the entire class content, and I will explain to you why. Ursula Le Guin So first a little bit on Ursula Le Guin. She was a well-known author who passed away in January 2018. She is best known as a writer of speculative fiction, i.e. works where the setting is that other than our own world, and oftentimes involves supernatural, futuristic, or other imagined elements. Her parents were Theodora Kroeber, a writer and anthropologist, and Alfred Louis Kroeber, a cultural anthropologist who received his PhD under Franz Boas. Her writing, and her life, were heavily influenced by cultural anthropology, Taoism, feminism, and Jungian psychology. She won many awards for her pieces, including 7 Hugo's, 6 Neb...