1st Edition
Language, Ideology and Identity in Serial Killer Narratives
By Christiana Gregoriou
Copyright 2011
198 Pages
34 B/W Illustrations
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Routledge
218 Pages
34 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
208 Pages
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Routledge
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In this book, Gregoriou explores the portrayal of the serial killer identity and its related ideology across a range of contemporary crime narratives, including detective fiction, the true crime genre and media journalism. How exactly is the serial killer consciousness portrayed, how is the killing linguistically justified, and how distinguishing is the language revolving around criminal... Read more
1. Crime Scenes 2. Killer Headlines 3. True Crime! 4. Buying Crime 5. The Verdict
Biography
Christiana Gregoriou is a lecturer in English Stylistics at the University of Leeds. She has an interest in the linguistic make-up of literary texts, and crime narratives in particular. She's published on the criminal mind style, a book on English Literary Stylistics and a monograph on Deviance in Contemporary Crime Fiction.
