The second section moves from the political aspects of the study to the literary ones, showing that Brexit themes are to be found in contemporary fictions published before the referendum and focusing on two novels t. Hotel World is not an easy read: disturbing and witty by turns, with its stream-of-consciousness narrators reminiscent of Virgina Woolf's The Waves, its deceptively rambling language is underpinned by a formal construction. Most impressively, Smith has mastered sophisticated literary techniques, which never intrude or bog down a delectable narrative of human perception and rumination.

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The final chapter considers the presence of both Paul Gilroy’s and Kristian Shaw’s idea of cosmopolitan empathy in NW, with extended reference to the Grand Union short story ‘Kelso Deconstructed’.In this voice from beyond the grave Ali Smith has created the perfect literary ghost imbued with a powerful sense of wonder at the minutiae of everyday sensuality and her beautiful, vivid descriptions are reinforced by a sharp, unsentimental tongue. G. Ballard’s Urban Disaster Fiction Marcin Tereszewski, University of Wrocław Existential Laughter in The Fiction of Marilyn Duckworth Anna Orzechowska, University of Warsaw The Goldsmiths Prize and Its Conceptualization of Experimental Literature Wojciech Drąg, University od Wrocław Polish Screenplay in English Translation Aneta Tatarczuk, The Karkonosze State University of Applied Sciences The 28th PASE conference - Diversity is inclusive. It demands first to be read aloud -- there are voices which have to be heard to be heard -- and then to be read again -- the story, insofar as there is one, pulls you round in the sort of circle which only begins to take shape when you've walked it more than once.

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You have the right to ask for a copy of the information we hold on you, and the right to ask us to correct any inaccuracies in that information. Each section stands in its own right, and yet the stories are deftly interweaved, with characters from one section popping up in another, the actions of one character influencing the fate of another. The fifth section of the novel titled “Future in the Past,” is entirely Clare's memories on the life and death of her sister Sara. Though not all the voices are as mesmeric as Sara's, each is enriched and enforced by the author's ability to find life where there is death and language where there is silence.After an introduction that serves as a framework, the work is divided into three different sections. Her 2014 novel How to be both won the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, the Goldsmiths Prize and the Costa Novel of the Year Award. It argues that although both texts can be seen to be gesturing towards a reconstructive relationship with the absolute cynicism and scepticism of postmodernism neither represents a sustainable discontinuity with that late-twentieth-century mode. Her sentence structure or complete lack of structure, the immediacy she imparts on her text, the words she chooses to forget, and the way she structures her novel's chapters as grammatical tenses of time all communicate the sense that time is passing.

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The ‘repetition compulsion’, however, that Freud considered to be an example of uncanniness was also theorised by him as a post-traumatic symptom, and this implicit association of uncanniness with post-traumatic experience also allows to interpret the persistent preoccupation of these fictions with suffering and disaster, as well as their explorations of the ways in which collective tragedy and personal trauma reverberate within an increasingly globalised, interconnected world. This sense of living through death – through a relation to ending – is seen as fundamentally modernist and I trace its theoretical articulation in the narratologies of Frank Kermode and Walter Benjamin. This reflective essay seeks to question, through my creative practice, methods of writing the history of post-1945 events for a young adult reader.Smith's work abounds with mysteries, with unresolved puzzles: what really happened to the old man who survived under the snow for a week in 'Miracle Survivors'? Ali Smith includes several quotes and short poems at the start of the book which are reflective of the themes of the novel. Sara visits various rooms in the hotel, where she sees other young women, including the girl working at the front desk, who is sick but not yet aware of that fact, and a homeless woman sitting outside. At what point in the story do we realise that this time the innocent is a girl and that we are reading about a lesbian awakening?

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M. Forster’s “The Machine Stops” Elif Derya Şenduran, Independent Scholar 123 Forster and Adaptation: Across Time, Media and Methodologies Claire Monk, De Montfort University, UK 139 Guilty Style: Lauren Oyler’s Fake Accounts and E. In her narration of the following chapter, which takes place six months later, Lise is too sick to even get out of bed. This article examines David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas (2004) and Zadie Smith's NW (2012) against recent theories of the post-postmodern. The book opens with the story of a chambermaid at the hotel -- nineteen year old Sara Wilby, as we later learn.

This phrase could be seen as Smith’s motto, but the fact that whilst walking that path she weaves yarns that are entertaining, irreverent, sensitive, thoughtful, shocking and delightful makes her a storyteller par excellence.