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Deviance in Contemporary Crime Fiction /

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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 corresponding...

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Main Author: Gregoriou, Christiana (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Series:Crime files series.
Subjects:
Literature.
British and Irish Literature.
Cultural Theory.
Fiction.
Literary Theory.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
North American Literature.
British literature.
Culture > Study and teaching.
Literature > Philosophy.
Literature, Modern > 19th century.
America > Literatures.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary: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.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (XI, 178 pages)
ISBN:9780230207219
DOI:10.1057/9780230207219