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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Ali Smith"”.
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Living entanglements and the ecological thought in the works of Paul Kingsnorth, Tom McCarthy, and Ali Smith
… novelists—Paul Kingsnorth, Tom McCarthy, and Ali Smith—deal with the representational and ethical challenges of writing about nature and climate change within the Anthropocene. The question of how to live and write now is a prominent thread in all their works, which show, in both form and …
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The centre cannot hold: a translation of the cognitive nonconscious
… McCarthy, Ian McEwan, Ben Lerner, Nicola Barker, Ali Smith, Edward St. Aubyn, Patricia Lockwood, Christine Smallwood, Richard Owain Roberts, and Jon McGregor. What connects the work of these authors is the rejection of consciousness as a privileged perspective into character. To bring together a …
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Contextualizing narrative theory: reading the politics of formal innovation in contemporary women's fiction
… yet it also bears the traces of its structuralist origins. Its value is therefore contingent upon its continuing reformulation as an expansive, pluralist and contextualized critical discipline. Participating in this expansion, this thesis evidences the pertinence and vitality of some …
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Concepts of the global in contemporary culture : figuring the totality
… David Lynch, Antonio Negri, Peter Sloterdijk, Ali Smith, and Bernard Stiegler. The project locates prominent and significant concepts of the global in contemporary culture, which offers a break from current studies which either focus purely on ways in which texts represent the current form of …
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Exile, homecoming, and the remembered journey: towards a new writing of perspective, place and event
… the authors W. G. Sebald, Tom McCarthy, Ali Smith, David Shields, Deborah Levy and Gabriel Josipovici. In this study I have considered a range of authors who I believe are particularly illuminating in their exploration of new emerging representations of subjectivity within the novel over …
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Connectivity and Contemporaneity in Ali Smith’s Oeuvre: A Critical Study
… (to date) of the contemporary Scottish writer Ali Smith. I explore the remarkable but diffuse critical attention to Smith's writing while positing an original single-author approach gleaned from sustained attention across her experimentation with literary forms and genres, including: novels, …