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

• Autore: Gregoriou C
• Pubblicazione: London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2007
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2007.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (191 p.)
• Disciplina: 813.087209054
• Soggetto topico: 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
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Deviance in Contemporary Crime Fiction
• ISBN: 1-280-86204-1; 9786610862047; 0-230-20721-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910782795903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Crime Files