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Deviance in Contemporary Crime Fiction

Deviance in Contemporary Crime Fiction

Hardcover

Series: Crime Files

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0230003397
ISBN13: 9780230003392
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Jan 30 2007
Pages: 178
Weight: 0.82
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Awards: Anthony Awards, Edgar Allan Poe Awards
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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