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Deviance in Contemporary Crime Fiction

Part of the Crime Files Series Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9780230207219

ISBN: 978-0-230-59463-0

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK - Springer Journals

Sep 30, 2015

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Chapter 1Introduction: Narratology and Deviance

Gregoriou, Christiana

Pages: 1 –35

[I aim to explore the poetics of deviance in the context of contemporary crime fiction. I use the term poetics, since it etymologically suggests a study concerned with the art or theory of ‘making’. Though, as Wales (2001: 305) argues, the term since classical times has been linked with the art...
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Chapter 2Contemporary Crime Fiction: Constraints and Development

Gregoriou, Christiana

Pages: 36 –61

[Much has been written about crime fiction, and treatments of the subject vary greatly. Whereas, for instance, some writers view such material as no more than entertaining, crime fiction has been elsewhere treated more seriously. Theorists, critics and analysts have described both the history of...
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Chapter 3Linguistic Deviance: The Stylistics of Criminal Justification

Gregoriou, Christiana

Pages: 62 –90

[This chapter consists of two studies that explore the stylistic forms involved in the production of contemporary crime novels and it aims to contribute to both the discipline of literary criticism and that of cognitive stylistics.]
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Chapter 4Social Deviance in Contemporary Crime Fiction

Gregoriou, Christiana

Pages: 91 –122

[‘As commonly defined, abnormal behaviour is almost always regarded as undesirable and as something to be changed or modified if at all possible’ (Miller and Morley, 1986: 4). According to the same source, studies published on abnormality are inversely related to the frequency with which that...
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Chapter 5Generic Deviance in Contemporary Crime Fiction

Gregoriou, Christiana

Pages: 123 –150

[Genre is a fuzzy concept, a somewhat loose term of art; it is a highly attractive word, but it is also an extremely slippery one. Even though it is often defined as a distinctive type or category of literary composition, Swales (1990: 33) suggests that nowadays genre is quite easily used to...
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Chapter 6Conclusion

Gregoriou, Christiana

Pages: 151 –165

[In investigating the poetics of deviance in contemporary crime fiction, I started by offering some background to studies surrounding the notion of ‘genre’, and a few that particularly investigate the linguistic aspects of various types of fiction. I outlined the aims of my study, defined the...

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