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Deviance in contemporary crime fiction /
Christiana Gregoriou's book explores three aspects of deviance manipulated by contemporary crime fiction: linguistic, social, and generic. In detailed case studies of the work of James Patterson, Michael Connolly and Patricia Cornwell, Gregoriou investigates the ways in which crime fiction chal...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Basingstoke :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2007.
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| Colección: | Crime files series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Narratology and Deviance
- Aims, material and method
- Narratology and deviance
- The structure of narratives
- Crime fiction as genre and as popular literature
- Outline of remaining contents
- Contemporary Crime Fiction: Constraints and Development
- Introduction
- Crime fiction: origins and development
- Rules, regularities and constraints
- Defining the crime fiction genre
- Rules and constraints
- Formulaic regularities
- What sort of an attraction does crime literature hold for its readers?
- Crime fiction reading as pleasure
- Crime fiction reading as an addiction
- Crime fiction and the notion of realism
- The genre as a mirror to society
- Challenging the masculinity, whiteness and straightness of the genre
- From private eye novel to police procedural
- Character in detective fiction
- The detective as the criminal's double
- Writers focusing on the murderer
- The future of crime fiction
- Linguistic Deviance: The Stylistics of Criminal Justification
- Introduction
- The stylistics of justification in contemporary crime fiction
- Contextualising the crime fiction extracts
- Stylisitc analysis of the extracts
- The study's conclusions
- A further investigation into the protrayal of the criminal mind in Patterson
- Contextualising the criminally-focalised extracts
- The poetics of the criminal mind
- The study's conclusions
- Social Deviance in Contemporary Crime Fiction
- Defining 'abnormal behaviour': the Connelly series
- The carnivalesque as social deviation in the genre
- Carnivals
- Carnivaleque
- The carnival of crime fiction
- Jungian archtypes
- Criminal archtypes
- Generic Deviance in Contemporary Crime Fiction
- On defining genre
- Wittgenstein's family resemblance theory
- The prototype approach to sense
- Defamiliarisation and genre
- The crime fiction genre
- Cornwell's generic form: a subgenre or a new genre?
- What constitutes generic deviance?
- Conclusion
- Book review
- Metafunctions of deviance
- Investigating deviance
- Writers on their work.