The poetics of deviance in contemporary American crime fiction

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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
Format:	Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:	English
Published:	2003
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/11826/

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