Poetics of Deviance in Comtempoary American Crime Fiction by Gregoriou Christiana Dr (9780230003392)
Gregoriou Christiana Dr
Release Date: 30 Mar 2007 Format: Hardcover Pages: 200 Category: Language Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan ISBN: 9780230003392 ISBN-10: 0230003397
This book directly 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 linguistic norms, the boundaries of acceptable social behaviour, and the relevant generic conventions.