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In such novels as Hotel World and the Whitbread Prize winning The Accidental, Ali Smith has established herself as one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary fiction. Covering her complete oeuvre, from the short stories to her most recent novel There but for the, this is the first comprehensive critical guide to Smith's work. Bringing together leading scholars, Ali Smith: Contemporary Critical Perspectives covers such topics as: Language, truth and reality Spectral presences and the uncanny Gender and sexuality Cosmopolitanism Smith's place in the contemporary canon Including. "In such novels as Hotel World and the Whitbread Prize winning The Accidental, Ali Smith has established herself as one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary fiction. Covering her complete oeuvre, from the short stories to her most recent novel There but for the, this is the first comprehensive critical guide to Smith's work."--Publisher's website.
Smith, Ali, --- Smith, Ali, 1962 --- -European --- Criticism and interpretation --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Authors, Scottish --- Scotland --- Social life and customs --- Smith, Ali. --- Smith, Ali, - 1962- - Criticism and interpretation
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Deceptive Fictions: Narrating Trauma and Violence in Contemporary Writing explores the widespread narrative concern with trauma and violence, and their interactions with identity, meaning, ethics, history, memory and various other related issues in a selection of novels by prolific contemporary British and Irish writers. Interrogating the strategic functions of trauma and violence, the book argues that these texts can be read as counter-narratives to, or a backlash against, still-prevalent cr...
English fiction --- Violence in literature. --- English literature --- History and criticism. --- McEwan, Ian. --- Smith, Ali, --- Barker, Pat, --- McGregor, Jon, --- Enright, Anne,
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Virginia Woolf, Jeanette Winterson, and Ali Smith share an ecological philosophy of the world as one highly interconnected entity comprised of multiple and equal, human and non-human participants. This study argues that these writers' texts have an ecological significance in fostering respect for and understanding of difference, human and nonhuman.
Environmental policy. --- Fiction. --- Environmental sociology. --- Literature, Modern—20th century. --- Literature. --- Sociology. --- Environmental Politics. --- Environmental Sociology. --- Twentieth-Century Literature. --- Literature, general. --- Gender Studies. --- Woolf, Virginia, --- Winterson, Jeanette, --- Smith, Ali, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Ecocriticism. --- Ecofeminism in literature. --- Women and literature.
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Ecocriticism. --- Ecofeminism in literature. --- Women and literature. --- Woolf, Virginia, --- Winterson, Jeanette, --- Smith, Ali, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Ecocriticism --- Ecofeminism in literature --- Women and literature --- Literature --- Ecological literary criticism --- Environmental literary criticism --- Criticism --- Woolf, Virginia Stephen, --- Stephen, Virginia, --- Ulf, Virzhinii︠a︡, --- Ṿolf, Ṿirg'inyah, --- Vulf, Virdzhinii︠a︡, --- Вулф, Вирджиния, --- וולף, וירג׳יניה --- וולף, וירג׳יניה, --- Stephen, Adeline Virginia, --- ווינטרסון, ג׳נט, --- Winterson, Jeanette --- Smith, Ali --- Woolf, Virginia
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