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Queering as a tool of narrative knowledge in Ali Smith’s Girl Meets Boy and The First Person and Other Stories

Journal of Lesbian Studies
My paper analyses Ali Smith’s innovative use of queering as a narrative strategy in Girl Meets Boy (2007) and The First Person and Other Stories (2008), focusing on her transformation of narrative structures, epistemic realities, and identity through ...
Attila Dósa
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‘Love It If We Made It’ : Affect Beyond Hope in Ali Smith’s Autumn and The 1975’s A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships

Junctions: Graduate Journal of the Humanities
The ‘return of affect’, a phenomenon noting the waning of cynicism and irony in contemporary works, has been attested to by myriad scholars. This return has inevitably spawned numerous theories seeking to explicate it, many of which aim to build upon ...
Jo Ten Bolscher
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Toby or not Toby: An Existential Reading of Ali Smith's There But For The

Scottish Literary Review, 2023
:Ali Smith's There But For The (2011), a polyphonic novel with four separate narrators, was recognised as one of the year's best books by the Guardian and Publishers Weekly.
Asghar Bikas, Ensiyeh Darzinejad, F. Ghaderi   +2 more
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The Dog as Guardian of Thresholds in Ali Smith's Companion Piece

Babel – AFIAL : Aspectos de Filoloxía Inglesa e Alemá
Whether as the attributes of prominent Greek divinities like Hekate or as the guardian of the Underworld, Cerberus, the pervasive presence of dogs in Greek mythology is surely a result of their role as companions of humans throughout history.
Aylín Esmeralda García Hernández
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Dehumanization and Propaganda in Ali Smith’s Spring (2019)

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae: Philologica
Ali Smith’s series of novels, known as the Seasonal Quartet (2016–2020), has received significant academic acclaim for its exposure of political lies, post-truth mindsets, and the xenophobic sentiments of the Brexit Leave campaign. Nonetheless, there has
Angelina Likhovid
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Holding Hands: Intergenerational Desire in Diana Wynne Jones's Fire and Hemlock and Ali Smith's Autumn

Poetics Today, 2023
Diana Wynne Jones's Fire and Hemlock (1984) and Ali Smith's Autumn (2016) are two British novels that evoke an intense friendship between a girl and an older man.
V. Joosen
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Experimental fiction, lesbian aesthetics, and queer world making: living lesbian lives with Ali Smith

Journal of Lesbian Studies
This article explores how lesbian aesthetics inform Ali Smith’s literary practice, including activism and gender nonconforming characters.
Jaime Harker
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Post-Anthropocentric Subject Imaginaries in Sarah Hall’s “Mrs Fox”, Ali Smith’s “The Beholder”, and Daisy Johnson’s “Starver”

English Studies
Theoretically grounded in critical posthumanities, this article explores how Sarah Hall’s “Mrs Fox”, Ali Smith’s “The Beholder”, and Daisy Johnson’s “Starver” deploy the trope of metamorphosis as a narrative strategy to decentre the human subject and to ...
Kerim Can Yazgünoğlu
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Metamodernism and counterpublics: politics, aesthetics, and porosity in Ali Smith’s Seasonal Quartet

Textual Practice, 2022
Influential critics including Robin van den Akker, Alison Gibbons, and Timotheus Vermeulen have characterised the metamodern turn as politically reenergizing aesthetic practices with a mixture of hope and irony after a period of postmodern cynicism ...
Nicole Schrag
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Hieratic Morality: Ali Smith and Hannah Arendt

Contemporary Literature
Charlie Ericson
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