Kate Atkinson’s Crime Fiction: Exception as a Rule

This essay discusses the relationship between crime fiction and exception in Kate Atkinson’s Jackson Brodie novels. By definition, crime novels depend on exception because deviation from the ordinary is the starting point of a plot and because they thrive on ruptures in the ordinary, on twists and t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Armelle Parey
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée 2020-03-01
Series:Études Britanniques Contemporaines
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/ebc/8351