The poetics of deviance in contemporary American crime fiction

The study directly explores the three aspects of deviance that contemporary American crime fiction manipulates: linguistic, social, and generic. I conduct case studies into crime series by James Patterson, Michael Connelly and Patricia Cornwell and investigate the way in which the novelists correspo...

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Main Author: Gregoriou, Christiana
Published: University of Nottingham 2003
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.401540