Name: Ali Smith: Contemporary Critical Perspectives
Author: Sean Matthews
ISBN: 9781441157607

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Ali Smith: Contemporary Critical Perspectives

Author(s): Sean Matthews

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication Date: 18 July 2013
Language: English
Print length: 208 pages
ISBN-10: 1441157603
ISBN-13: 9781441157607

Book Description

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 a new interview with the author, a chronology of her life and authoritative guides to further reading, this is an essential guide for anyone interested in the best of contemporary fiction.

Editorial Reviews

Review

[This book] is a timely and interesting guide to Smith’s contribution to contemporary literature … a useful guide for students … It paves the way for further exploration of Smith as one of the foremost contemporary women writers of the twenty-first century. –Contemporary Women’s Writing, Emma Young, University of Lincoln

The first major critical book on Ali Smith … [An] important volume. –The Year’s Work in English Studies

About the Author

Emily Horton is Visiting Lecturer in English Literature at Brunel University, UK, and at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.

Monica Germanà is Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Westminster, UK. She is the author of Scottish Women’s Gothic and Fantastic Writing: Fiction Since 1978 (EUP, 2010).

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