Attending Daedalus
The Urth list — 3 messages, 3 voices, 12 Jun 2006
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b sharp — 12 Jun 2006, 14:59

Has anyone read Peter Wright's Attending Daedalus?  The scholarly language 
makes me fear I miss the point.  I think he is saying that BotNS story is 
really about a political power struggle between two powerful and not very 
nice groups manipulating Severian, the overall philosphy being to address 
issues like colonization and imperialism and such.  Any other thoughts on 
this?

-bsharp

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Tristan Davenport — 12 Jun 2006, 19:01
  in reply to b sharp

I haven't read Attending Daedalus, but from your description it sounds like 
the kind of everything-is-political criticism that's fashionable in PoMo 
academia these days.  I believe the same kind of thing has been said about 
the New Testament, among other works.

                             Tristan
                             tristan_davenport at hotmail.com

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> Has anyone read Peter Wright's Attending Daedalus?  The scholarly language
> makes me fear I miss the point.  I think he is saying that BotNS story is
> really about a political power struggle between two powerful and not very
> nice groups manipulating Severian, the overall philosphy being to address
> issues like colonization and imperialism and such.  Any other thoughts on
> this?
> 
> -bsharp
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________

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Chris — 13 Jun 2006, 00:22
  in reply to b sharp

http://www.urth.net/urth/archives/v0022/0039.shtml
http://www.urth.net/urth/archives/v0307/3817.txt.shtml
http://www.urth.net/urth/archives/v0026/0012.shtml

For a few of the older references. I know the book has been mentioned on the 
list recently as well, at least once by me.

> Has anyone read Peter Wright's Attending Daedalus?  The scholarly language
> makes me fear I miss the point.  I think he is saying that BotNS story is
> really about a political power struggle between two powerful and not very
> nice groups manipulating Severian, the overall philosphy being to address
> issues like colonization and imperialism and such.  Any other thoughts on
> this?
> 
> -bsharp
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________

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