{"product_id":"maggie-gee-critical-essays-paperback","title":"Maggie Gee: Critical Essays - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCaroline Edwards\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eSarah Dillon\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe relationship between writer and reader, an unnerving intimacy with a total stranger, remains mysterious. Writing, my body is the locus of illusions that for me, in that moment, are real: scenes, faces, landscapes, flash before my eyes as I record them. My web of words, by now drained of sound and colour, is transmitted to a publisher. (Maggie Gee, Foreword)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is a risky business holding an academic conference, and publishing a collection of academic essays, on Maggie Gee. For Gee is a satirist of the most unflinching kind, and literary scholars and their conferences are mocked throughout her work. Take, for example, Gee's most recent novel, \u003ci\u003e Virginia Woolf in Manhattan\u003c\/i\u003e (2014). Woolf - accidentally resurrected from the dead by contemporary writer Angela Lamb - learns that Angela is to attend a Woolf conference in Istanbul and is eager to go along with her. Angela has her doubts: 'I can hardly take her to her own conference', she writes to her daughter, Gerda; 'why not?, ' thinks Gerda, in reply: 'Wouldn't it be helpful to have the actual writer telling all the academics and people like my mother where they are gong wrong? Surely it would be good for them'. Gee has a longstanding interest in the role of the author, since her doctoral thesis on self-conscious authors in Nabokov, Beckett and Woolf. Her first published novel \u003ci\u003eDying, in Other Words\u003c\/i\u003e (1981), plays out that interest through fiction, in a postmodern self-conscious experimental reflection on the role of the author; her most recent novel addresses the same ideas through two author characters: the contemporary writer Angela Lamb, and the resurrected dead Woolf. This miraculous resurrection provides playful opportunity for further reflection on Roland Barthes's idea of 'the death of the author', a theoretical concept on which Gee wrote in her doctoral thesis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough our conversations with Gee - both at the conference and in correspondence throughout the years in which this collection has been brought together - we the editors, and our contributors, have no doubt that whilst an author may indeed not know everything about their work, the idea of intentionality is not entirely fallacious. Gee is a clever, careful writer, as well as a skilled scholar (even though she did not choose that path); she knows what she is doing when she is writing and she knows what she intends. At the same time, of course, she is under no illusion that when her fictional work ventures into the world, it will be interpreted in various and different ways.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eList of Abbreviations \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eForeword\u003cbr\u003eMaggie Gee \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e1. Beyond the Blue: The Sorrowful Joy of Gee\u003cbr\u003eSarah Dillon and Caroline Edwards \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e2. Burning to Tell the Tale: Negotiating Aesthetics and Politics in The Burning Book\u003cbr\u003eMonika Szuba \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e3. Reproductive Politics and the Public Sphere: Natalism, Natality and Apocalypse\u003cbr\u003eAlex Beaumont \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e4. 'Fall[ing] Out of the Past': Time, Ageing and Generations in Where Are the Snows\u003cbr\u003eSarah Falcus \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e5. Literary Equivocation: Reproductive Futurism and The Ice People\u003cbr\u003eSarah Dillon \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e6. 'One and Indivisible, A Seamless Web': Climate Change as Historical Process in The Flood\u003cbr\u003eChris Maughan \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e7. 'The End Times and After': Utopia, Dystopia and Being-Together in The Flood\u003cbr\u003eAdam Welstead \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e8. From the 'Native Outside' to the 'Foreign Within': Re\/negotiating Urban Space in The White Family \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIrene Pérez Fernández \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e9. Faith and Grace: Maggie Gee s Spritual Politics\u003cbr\u003eSusan Alice Fischer \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e10. The Resurrection of the Author: On Virginia Woolf in Manhattan\u003cbr\u003eE. H. Wright \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e11. How May I Speak in My Own Voice? Language and the Forbidden\u003cbr\u003eMaggie Gee \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNotes on Contributors \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIndex\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 312\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.65 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 05, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53125542215987,"sku":"9781780240336","price":63.27,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/D-5nCIHsj09781780240336.webp?v=1773255895","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/maggie-gee-critical-essays-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}