{"title":"Ali Smith's Parasitic Poetics","authors":"Liliane Campos","doi":"10.1353/mfs.2022.0015","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay examines the figure of the parasite in Ali Smith's fiction. Drawing on literary, political, and biological theorizations of the concept, I analyze the interaction between the parasite as narrative function and parasitism as social construction in \"The Hanging Girl,\" Hotel World, The Accidental, There But For The, Winter, and Spring. By examining the evolving role of this figure, I outline the gradual shift in Smith's poetics toward an ironic allegorical mode. In her recent novels, Smith uses cohabitation tropes to connect political satire with ecological paradigms, and targets failed mutualism as the ethical shortcoming of contemporary Britain.","PeriodicalId":45576,"journal":{"name":"MFS-Modern Fiction Studies","volume":"21 1","pages":"346 - 369"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5000,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"MFS-Modern Fiction Studies","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2022.0015","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LITERATURE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:This essay examines the figure of the parasite in Ali Smith's fiction. Drawing on literary, political, and biological theorizations of the concept, I analyze the interaction between the parasite as narrative function and parasitism as social construction in "The Hanging Girl," Hotel World, The Accidental, There But For The, Winter, and Spring. By examining the evolving role of this figure, I outline the gradual shift in Smith's poetics toward an ironic allegorical mode. In her recent novels, Smith uses cohabitation tropes to connect political satire with ecological paradigms, and targets failed mutualism as the ethical shortcoming of contemporary Britain.
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Modern Fiction Studies publishes engaging articles on prominent works of modern and contemporary fiction. Emphasizing historical, theoretical, and interdisciplinary approaches, the journal encourages a dialogue between fiction and theory, publishing work that offers new theoretical insights, clarity of style, and completeness of argument. Modern Fiction Studies alternates general issues dealing with a wide range of texts with special issues focused on single topics or individual writers.
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