Alice Bennett’s scientific contributions

... Smith, who debuted in 1995 with Free Love and Other Stories, has been the subject of research before, of which Ali Smith: Contemporary Critical Perspectives (Germanà and Horton 2013) is an early critical appraisal. Authors such as SaraUpstone (2016) and AliceBennett (2018) included discussions of Smith's earlier novels in their monographs, but critical attention really exploded as the Seasonal Quartet made its way to readers everywhere-the number of publications devoted to Smith's work roughly doubled since 2020. Clearly, the way Smith's novels combine formal and narrative experimentation with highly topical issues resonates with many critical preoccupations, including our own. ...

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Introduction: the narrative ethics of Ali Smith’s Seasonal Quartet