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.
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Deviance in Contemporary Crime Fiction
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.
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780230594630 |
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Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan UK |
Publication date: | 01/30/2007 |
Series: | Crime Files |
Edition description: | 2007 |
Pages: | 178 |
Product dimensions: | 5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.70(d) |
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