Attending Daedalus
：Gene Wolfe, Artifice and the Reader
( Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies )
Publication subTitle ：Gene Wolfe, Artifice and the Reader
Publication series ：Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies
Publisher： Liverpool University Press
Publication year： 2003
E-ISBN: 9781781386156
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780853238188
Subject： N Pandect of Natural Science;N0 Theory and Methodology of Natural Science;O411.1 Mathematical Methods of Physics;Q1 General Biology
Language： ENG
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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 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.