Deviance in Contemporary Crime Fiction / / by C. Gregoriou

• Autore: Gregoriou Christiana <1978->
• 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; European literature; Literature, Modern - 19th century; Literary Theory; Cultural Theory; Fiction Literature; North American Literature; European 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: 9786610862047; 9781280862045; 1280862041; 9780230207219; 0230207219
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910969559103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Crime Files, . 2947-8359