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Record Nr.

UNINA9910969559103321

Autore

Gregoriou Christiana <1978->

Titolo

Deviance in Contemporary Crime Fiction / / by C. Gregoriou

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

9786610862047

9781280862045

1280862041

9780230207219

0230207219

Edizione

[1st ed. 2007.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (191 p.)

Collana

Crime Files, , 2947-8359

Disciplina

813.087209054

Soggetti

Literature - Philosophy

Culture - Study and teaching

Fiction

America - Literatures

European literature

Literature, Modern - 19th century

Literary Theory

Cultural Theory

Fiction Literature

North American Literature

European 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.