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.
| ISBN: | 9780230003392 |
| Publication date: | 30th January 2007 |
| Author: | Christiana Gregoriou |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan an imprint of Palgrave Macmillan UK |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 178 pages |
| Series: | Crime Files |
| Genres: |
Literary theory Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Cultural studies Literature: history and criticism Fiction |