User:Aitantv/Ursula Le Guin (1988) The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction

Le Guin, U (1988) The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction. TJ Books Ltd, UK

• "Heroes are powerful" (Le Guin 1988)

+ Le Guin sets out to debunk the importance of the hero. That gathering, as opposed to hunting, was the well spring of life. Hunting perservered not because it preserved villages or groups, but because it brought with it great triumphant stories, with a hero.

• "A leaf a gourd a shell a net a bag a sling a sack a bottle a pot a box a container. A holder. A recipient." (Le Guin 1988)

+ We can think of films as pots, installations as shells, containers of ideas, atmospheres, vibrations, time, stories.

• "we've all heard about all the sticks and spears and swords, the things to bash and poke and hit with, the long, hard things, but we have not heard about the thing to put things in, the containers for the thing contained. That is a new story. That is news." (Le Guin 1988)
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