Male-Female+Communication

In order to conduct a demonstration of male - female communication in the classroom we're going to need something to talk //about//, so here is how I present the lesson to my literature and writing students.

Ursula K. LeGuin, is an esteemed fantasy/science fiction author responsible for //The Earthsea Trilogy// (Earthsea actually encompasses six books and is the setting for seven of her short stories), the Hainish Cycle (sci-fi), and short stories that have become classic to their genres such as "Schrodinger's Cat". []

For the demonstration, I'd like you to discuss her short story "She Unnames Them".

PDF file of "She Unnames Them" from its appearance in //The New Yorker//. (Has a few typos) []

Mp3 of Ursula K. LeGuin reading "She Unnames Them" [] (Direct MP3 link) []


 * Allusions in "She Unnames Them":**

Dean Swift = Jonathan Swift, In Gulliver's Travels the protagonist travels to the Country of the Houyhnhnms, a race of horses. []

Linnaean - reference Linnaean (classical) taxonomy in biology, the naming of all things. []

Platonic (mouse) From Plato's Theory of Forms []

Eliot - T.S. Eliot from his "The Naming of Cats" collected in //Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats.// //[|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Possum's_Book_of_Practical_Cats]//

Babel - The biblical Tower of Babel where humanity was punished for its arrogance by having its language "garbled" into many different languages. []

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