Ali Smith Contemporary Critical Perspectives

Just flipped through the essay on The Accidental and There but for the on Google Books, and I think I can now say that Ali Smith isn't really rendered properly in critical interpretation. I think if you read the novels thoughtfully you'll be able to pick up the stuff put forward here without all the academic mumbo jumbo. The scholarly analysis of her writing takes away the visceral emotion that makes it so powerful, too; the thing I love about her is that she's at once very intelligent and invoking of emotion, and in-depth analysis of the presence of violence in dry and academic terms really takes away from the experience and the quality of her work.