On U. K. Le Guin's "Second Earthsea Trilogy" and Its Cognitions: A Commentary (Ursula K. Le Guin) (Critical Essay‪)‬

This article arose out of the unease I felt at the ending of my "Fantasy" article, where it now seems to me not only that spacetime forced me to give short shrift to Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea writings, but that what I said applies only to the first three books, focussed mainly on the protagonist Ged. I want thus to follow the inner logic of her three last books set in Earthsea. (2) My working hypothesis is that these three books (Tehanu, Tales from Earthsea, The Other Wind) constitute a "Second Earthsea Trilogy" of high interest precisely because it both continues and strongly modifies the first one. The second trilogy, while operating with the central presuppositions of the first one, amounts to its reconsideration and rewriting. At the end, I would wish to discuss what and how may be cognitive in this Second Trilogy. The Creation of Ea(rthsea), Twice