Manchester University Press
1 Ali Smith
Abstract
This chapter explores the writing of Ali Smith from the late 1990s to the publication of How to be Both (2014). It concentrates primarily on her novels and short stories, though some attention is paid to her occasional writings. The chapter is broken into two broad generic sections, the first addressing her short stories together, the second her novels in chronological order. Each text is given close analytical study through formal, stylistic, and thematic critique, building to an overview of an author whose moral sense of duty for the care of the other is paradoxically set against her confusion at the impenetrability of that other’s being.
Abstract
This chapter explores the writing of Ali Smith from the late 1990s to the publication of How to be Both (2014). It concentrates primarily on her novels and short stories, though some attention is paid to her occasional writings. The chapter is broken into two broad generic sections, the first addressing her short stories together, the second her novels in chronological order. Each text is given close analytical study through formal, stylistic, and thematic critique, building to an overview of an author whose moral sense of duty for the care of the other is paradoxically set against her confusion at the impenetrability of that other’s being.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Front matter i 1
- Dedication v
- Contents vii
- Acknowledgements viii
- Introduction 1
- 1 Ali Smith 26
- 2 Andrew O’Hagan 74
- 3 Tom McCarthy 115
- 4 Sarah Hall 154
- 5 Jon McGregor 202
- Select bibliography 243
- Index 253
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Front matter i 1
- Dedication v
- Contents vii
- Acknowledgements viii
- Introduction 1
- 1 Ali Smith 26
- 2 Andrew O’Hagan 74
- 3 Tom McCarthy 115
- 4 Sarah Hall 154
- 5 Jon McGregor 202
- Select bibliography 243
- Index 253
