Kate Atkinson
1st Edition
Published on 15. November 2022
256 pages
978-1-5261-4853-7 (ISBN)
Description
This timely in-depth study of award-winning Kate Atkinson's work provides a welcome comprehensive overview of the novels, play and short stories. It explores the major themes and aesthetic concerns in her fiction. Combining close analysis and literary contextualisation, it situates her multi-faceted work in terms of a hybridisation of genres and innovative narrative strategies to evoke contemporary issues and well as the past. Chapters offer insights into each major publication (from Behind the Scenes at the Museum to Big Sky, the latest instalment in the Brodie sequence, through the celebrated Life After Life and subsequent re-imaginings of the war) in relation to the key concerns of Atkinson's fiction, including self-narrativisation, history, memory and women's lives. -- .
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Language
English
Place of publication
Manchester
United Kingdom
Edition type
Digital original
ISBN-13
978-1-5261-4853-7 (9781526148537)
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Armelle Parey
Kate Atkinson
Book
11/2022
Manchester University Press
€115.60
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Armelle Parey is a Senior Lecturer at the Universite de Caen-Normandie -- .
Content
1 Kate Atkinson's aesthetics of hybridity
2 Coming-of-age novels: Behind the Scenes at the Museum, Human Croquet and Emotionally Weird
3 Forays into other genres: theatre and short stories
4 Defamiliarising detective fiction with Jackson Brodie: Case Histories, One Good Turn, When will There be Good News?, Started Early, Took my Dog and Big Sky
5 Re-imagining the war in Life after Life (2013), A God in Ruins (2015) and Transcription
6 Of endings
Bibliography
Index -- .
2 Coming-of-age novels: Behind the Scenes at the Museum, Human Croquet and Emotionally Weird
3 Forays into other genres: theatre and short stories
4 Defamiliarising detective fiction with Jackson Brodie: Case Histories, One Good Turn, When will There be Good News?, Started Early, Took my Dog and Big Sky
5 Re-imagining the war in Life after Life (2013), A God in Ruins (2015) and Transcription
6 Of endings
Bibliography
Index -- .
