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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�2s 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�2s 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.
Attending Daedalus: Gene Wolfe, Artifice and the Reader SYNOPSIS
American Wolfe has written so voluminously in science fiction, fantasy, and other genres, that to retain any coherence to his study, Wright (English and film, Edge Hill College, Ormskirk) limits his attention to the conceptual and thematic center: the four-volume The Book of the New Sun and its coda The Urth of the New Sun. He explores how Wolfe's preoccupations and idiosyncrasies as a creative artist may influence, manipulate, and finally illuminate his readers. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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