![]() ![]() ![]() Postmodern writers, whose critique of traditional Western philosophical systems and celebration of randomness and indeterminacy find fertile ground in the disruption of the rational side of detective fiction, and particularly in the parody of all its rules. . . . ![]() Indeed, I would argue that, rather than an exception in Atkinson’s production, 1 her detective novels may be part of a postmodern deviation in the genre, described as follows by Stefania Ciocia, when referring to: While Banville and Barnes have used a pseudonym for their detective fiction as if to signal a distinction, Hill and Atkinson have kept the same name for all their production, suggesting a turn or fluctuation in their writing. 1 Since they bear Atkinson’s distinctive mark in terms of plotting, developing her characters and sel (.)ġ Like John Banville, Julian Barnes, and Susan Hill amongst others, Kate Atkinson seemed to go from literary fiction to detective fiction when she published Case Histories (2004) in which she introduced Jackson Brodie who next appeared in four novels: One Good Turn (2006), When Will There Be Good News? (2008), Started Early, Took my Dog (2010) and Big Sky (2019). ![]()
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