Reproduction of a lecture given by Le Guin at the CLNE in 1992 at Keble College, Oxford.

A closely reasoned and fearlessly self-revealing account of a struggle to reconcile the ancient archetypes of the hero-tale with a true estimate of the value of, and values of, women and men in a world whose stories now need to celebrate the private as well as the public virtues, and many different kinds of courage.