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Deviance in Contemporary Crime Fiction
Christiana Gregoriou
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Description for Deviance in Contemporary Crime Fiction
Paperback. Christiana Gregoriou's book, now available in paperback, attempts to redefine the boundaries of an endlessly fascinating genre by exploring three aspects of deviance that contemporary crime fiction manipulates: linguistic, social, and generic. Includes detailed case studies on James Patterson, Michael Connelly and Patricia Cornwell. Series: Crime Files. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF; DSBH. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 242.
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.
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
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Series
Crime Files
Number of Pages
178
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230594630
SKU
V9780230594630
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Christiana Gregoriou
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.
Reviews for Deviance in Contemporary Crime Fiction
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 ... Read more