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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782795903321

Autore

Gregoriou C

Titolo

Deviance in Contemporary Crime Fiction [[electronic resource] /] / by C. Gregoriou

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2007

ISBN

1-280-86204-1

9786610862047

0-230-20721-9

Edizione

[1st ed. 2007.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (191 p.)

Collana

Crime Files

Disciplina

813.087209054

Soggetti

Literature—Philosophy

Culture—Study and teaching

Fiction

America—Literatures

British literature

Literature, Modern—19th century

Literary Theory

Cultural Theory

North American Literature

British and Irish Literature

Nineteenth-Century Literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: Narratology and Deviance; 2 Contemporary Crime Fiction: Constraints and Development; 3 Linguistic Deviance: The Stylistics of Criminal Justification; 4 Social Deviance in Contemporary Crime Fiction; 5 Generic Deviance in Contemporary Crime Fiction; 6 Conclusion; References; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores the three aspects of deviance that contemporary crime fiction manipulates: linguistic, social, and generic. Gregoriou conducts case studies into crime series by James Patterson, Michael



Connelly and Patricia Cornwell, and investigates the way in which these novelists correspondingly challenge those aforementioned conventions.