Deviance in Contemporary Crime Fiction - (Crime Files) by C Gregoriou

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This book explores the three aspects of deviance that contemporary crime fiction manipulates: linguistic, social, and generic.
Anthony Awards (Critical Nonfiction) 2008 4th Winner, Edgar Allan Poe Awards (Critical/Biographical) 2008 4th Winner
About the Author: CHRISTIANA GREGORIOU is currently a Lecturer in English Language at the University of Leeds, UK.
178 Pages
Literary Criticism, American
Series Name: Crime Files

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This book directly explores the three aspects of deviance that contemporary American crime fiction manipulates: linguistic, social, and generic.

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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 correspondingly challenge those aforementioned conventions.

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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

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.

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Weight: .82 Pounds

Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up

Number of Pages: 178

Genre: Literary Criticism

Sub-Genre: American

Series Title: Crime Files

Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan

Theme: General

Format: Hardcover

Author: C Gregoriou

Language: English

Street Date: January 30, 2007

TCIN: 1006741852

UPC: 9780230003392

Item Number (DPCI): 247-07-2629

Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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