Ali Smith Contemporary Critical Perspectives [Hardcover]

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.

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

Monica German?? 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).

Foreword: Marina Warner

Series Editors' Preface

Acknowledgements

Contributors

Chronology of Ali Smith's Life
INTRODUCTION
Monica German?? (University of Westminster) and Emily Horton (Brunel University)

CHAPTER ONE
Contemporary Space and Affective Ethics in Ali Smith's Short Stories
Emily Horton (Brunel University)

CHAPTER TWO
Simile and Similarity in Ali Smith's Like
Ian Blyth (University of St Andrews)

CHAPTER THREE
Narrating Remainders: Spectral Presences in Ali Smith's Fictions
Stephen M. Levin (Clarke University)

CHAPTER FOUR
Ali Smith and the Philosophy of Grammar
Mark Currie (Queen Mary's University of London)

CHAPTER FIVE
Queer Metamorphoses: Girl Meets Boy and the Futures of Queer Fiction
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