Deviance in Contemporary Crime Fiction

by C. Gregoriou

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230003392
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/30/2007
Series:	Crime Files
Edition description:	2007
Pages:	178
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

CHRISTIANA GREGORIOU is currently a Lecturer in English Language at the University of Leeds, UK. She is the author of English Literary Stylistics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008) and has published several articles on deviance in crime fiction.

Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: Narratology and Deviance Contemporary Crime Fiction: Constraints and Development Linguistic Deviance: The Stylistics of Criminal Justification Social Deviance in Contemporary Crime Fiction Generic Deviance in Contemporary Crime Fiction Conclusion References Index

Editorial Reviews

Shortlisted for Mystery Writers of America Edgar Awards 2008 (Category: Critical/Biographical)

Shortlisted for the Anthony Award for Best Critical Work of 2007

'Connecting the threads of textuality, context, theme and significance, this is a masterful account of crime fiction, and it stands as a model for the expansive, smart, multidisciplined and integrated literary scholarship that the future demands.' - Peter Stockwell, Professor of Literary Linguistics, University of Nottingham, UK

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