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Ali Smith : Contemporary Critical Perspectives
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ISBN: 9781441157607 9781441105189 1441105182 1441157603 1441159908 9781441159908 1441181555 9781441181558 1472543386 Year: 2013 Volume: *1 Publisher: London Bloomsbury

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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.


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Deceptive fictions : narrating trauma and violence in contemporary writing
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ISBN: 9781443878753 1443878758 9781443872706 1443872709 Year: 2015 Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing,

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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...


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Ecocriticism and women writers : environmentalist poetics of Virginia Woolf, Jeanette Winterson, and Ali Smith
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ISBN: 1349339024 1137349093 Year: 2013 Publisher: New York : Palgrave Macmillan,

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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.


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Ecocriticism and women writers : environmentalist poetics of Virginia Woolf, Jeanette Winterson, and Ali Smith
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ISBN: 9780230308435 Year: 2013 Publisher: Basinstoke New York : Palgrave Macmillan,

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