Ursula K Leguin, A Wizard of Earthsea | True Names of Things | Speculative Fiction Studies

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This is a video in my new Speculative Fiction Studies series, which examines and analyses key aspects of classic and contemporary works in the genres that fall under the broad rubric of speculative fiction. This includes fantasy, science fiction, horror, alternate history, weird, cyberpunk, utopian, post-apocalyptic, and superhero fiction, among other genres

This video focuses on Ursula K. Leguin's novel, A Wizard of Earthsea, the first in the six books set in the Earthsea narrative universe. It discusses specifically the concept of a "true name", which allows the knowing or understanding of the thing named, as well as its control or manipulation by magic. Persons, animals, things, even bodies of water each have their name in Earthsea

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