Table of Contents

Foreword: 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

Promotional Information

Covering her complete work from the short stories to the major novels, this is the first comprehensive critical guide to the work of Ali Smith.

About the Author

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

Monica Germanà 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).

Reviews

[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.
*Contemporary Women's Writing*

The first major critical book on Ali Smith ... [An] important volume.
*The Year's Work in English Studies*