Ali Smith - Brave Now World: Ali Smith in Conversation with Peter Boxall
- Date & time
- –
- Speaker
- Ali Smith, Professor Peter Boxall
- Host
- English (Department)
- Series
- Professor Peter Boxall
- Location
- Schwarzman Centre, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Woodstock Road, OX2 6GG
- Organisation
- Oxford
Topics
About this talk
Ali Smith is the novelist working today who has paid the closest attention to the contours of the present time, as they shift before us. From her novels, The Accidental, There But For The and How To Be Both, to her Seasonal Quartet (Autumn, Winter, Spring, Summer), to her most recent pair of novels, Gliff and Glyph, Smith has fashioned a fictional language with which to address the deep transformations in contemporary life that the current century has brought about. In doing so, Smith’s fiction is alive to the forces that threaten the very possibility of life in a democratically shared world today. But her novels, in bearing witness to such threats, are animated by the spirit of a certain kind of hope, the possibility of a different future that is intrinsic to the literary imagination itself. In this conversation, Ali Smith and Peter Boxall will discuss how such pictures of the future come about, and what the role of the literary imagination is in making a different future possible. Tickets are tickets are £10 standard / £5 student & U25. This event is part of the Utopia Now! Conference. Discounts are available if you book this evening event at the same time as a conference day ticket for the same day, so you can enjoy the daytime conference and evening programme for £10 standard / £5 student & U25 in total.
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