{"product_id":"ali-smith-9781441105189","title":"Ali Smith","description":"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[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. -- Emma Young, University of Lincoln * Contemporary Women's Writing *\u003cbr\u003eThe first major critical book on Ali Smith ... [An] important volume. * The Year's Work in English Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword: Marina Warner      Series Editors’ Preface  Acknowledgements      Contributors      Chronology of Ali Smith’s Life     INTRODUCTION     Monica Germanà (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 Kaye Mitchell (University of Manchester)  CHAPTER SIX Narrating Intrusion: Deceptive Storytelling and Frustrated Desires in The Accidental and There but for the Ulrike Tancke (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)  CHAPTER SEVEN “The Space That Wrecks Our Abode”: The Stranger in Ali Smith’s Hotel World and The Accidental Patrick O’Donnell (Michigan State University)  CHAPTER EIGHT Idiosyncrasy and Currency: Ali Smith and the Contemporary Canon Dominic Head (University of Nottingham)      CHAPTER NINE ‘The Uncanny can happen’: Desire and Belief in The Seer Monica Germanà (University of Westminster)  AFTERWORD ‘Sidekick playing the same tune’: Writing Ali Smith in Norwegian Merete Alfsen  INTERVIEW Gillian Beer interviews Ali Smith  References     Works Cited by Contributors Further Reading Works by Ali Smith Critical Material Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51769643237719,"sku":"9781441105189","price":31.42,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781441105189.jpg?v=1758722023","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/ali-smith-9781441105189","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}