| Attending Daedalus: Gene Wolfe, Artifice and the Reader Contributor(s): Wright, Peter (Author) |
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ISBN: 0853238189 ISBN-13: 9780853238188 Publisher: Liverpool University Press OUR PRICE: $148.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2003 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
| Dewey: 813.54 |
| LCCN: 2004353233 |
| Lexile Measure: 1590 |
| Physical Information: 253 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This new study of the fiction of Gene Wolfe, one of the most influential contemporary American science fiction writers, offers a major reinterpretation of Gene Wolfe's four-volume T"he Book of the New Sun" and its sequel "The Urth of the New Sun". After exposing the concealed story at the heart of Wolfe's magnum opus, Wright adopts a variety of approaches to establish that Wolfe is the designer of an intricate textual labyrinth intended to extend his thematic preoccupations with subjectivity, the unreliability of memory, the manipulation of individuals by social and political systems, and the psychological potency of myth, faith and symbolism into the reading experience. |