Author : Peter Wright
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780853238287
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (382 download)
Book Synopsis Attending Daedalus by : Peter Wright
Download or read book Attending Daedalus written by Peter Wright and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 The 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.