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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 of poetry, its etymological definition suggests that it is concerned with the art of any genre, hence Aristotle’s Poetics (1996), which discusses the art of drama and epic, but not specifically poetry.
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© 2007 Christiana Gregoriou
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Gregoriou, C. (2007). Introduction: Narratology and Deviance. In: Deviance in Contemporary Crime Fiction. Crime Files Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230207219_1
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