Kate Atkinson / Armelle Parey.
From Behind the Scenes at the Museum to Big Sky, this book explores the major themes and formal concerns in Kate Atkinson's fiction (history, memory, feminism, metafiction, genre revision). It situates Atkinson's ouvre in terms of an aesthetics of hydridity that runs through her eleven nov...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2022.
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| Series: | Contemporary British novelists
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| Summary: | From Behind the Scenes at the Museum to Big Sky, this book explores the major themes and formal concerns in Kate Atkinson's fiction (history, memory, feminism, metafiction, genre revision). It situates Atkinson's ouvre in terms of an aesthetics of hydridity that runs through her eleven novels, one play and one collection of stories to date. |
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| Item Description: | <p>1 Kate Atkinson's aesthetics of hybridity<br>2 Coming-of-age novels: <i>Behind the Scenes at the Museum,</i> <i>Human Croquet</i> and <i>Emotionally Weird</i><br>3 Forays into other genres: theatre and short stories<br>4 Defamiliarising detective fiction with Jackson Brodie: <i>Case Histories, One Good Turn, When will There be Good News?,</i> <i>Started Early, Took my Dog</i> and <i>Big Sky </i><br>5 Re-imagining the war in <i>Life after Life </i>(2013)<i>, A God in Ruins</i> (2015) and <i>Transcription </i><br>6 Of endings<br><br><i>Bibliography</i><br><i>Index</i></p> |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| ISBN: | 9781526148513 152614851X 9781526148537 1526148536 |
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