Kate Atkinson

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.

Author: Armelle Parey
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 11/15/2022
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.96lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.63d
ISBN13: 9781526148520
ISBN10: 1526148528
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Literary Criticism | Modern | 20th Century
- Literary Criticism | Modern | 21st Century

About the Author
Armelle Parey is a Senior Lecturer at the Université de Caen-Normandie