Attending Daedalus [electronic resource] : Gene Wolfe, Artifice and the Reader
Wright, Peter.
Liverpool : Liverpool University Press,
2003.
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 psy
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Title Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; A Note on Editions; Abbreviations; Part I: Initiations; 1. 'Silhouette': An Introduction to Gene Wolfe; 2. 'Trip, Trap': Psychology and Thematic Coherence; 3. 'In the House of Gingerbread': Interpretative Games and the Psychology of Reader Response; 4. 'The God and His Man': Critical Responses to The Urth Cycle; Part II: Investigations: The Urth Cycle; 5. 'The Toy Theatre': Uncovering the Story of The Urth Cycle; 6. 'The Last Thrilling Wonder Story'? Intergeneric Operations; 7. 'How the Whip Came Back': Directing Reader Response
8. 'Cues': The Function of Unfamiliar Diction9. 'There Are Doors': Memory and Textual Structure; 10. 'A Solar Labyrinth': Metafictional Devices and Textual Complexity; Part III: Conclusions; 11. 'The Map': The Multi-volume Novels and Metafictional Cartography; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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 psy
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.
Wolfe, Gene
Wolfe, Gene.
Science fiction, American
English
Languages & Literatures
American Literature