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Article: Criminally minded: the stylistics of justification in contemporary American crime fiction.
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This paper is part of a study to explore the stylistics of contemporary American crime fiction. In the paper I conduct an investigation into the criminal mind as portrayed in contemporary works by Patricia Cornwell, Michael Connelly and James Patterson, and I address the issue of how the criminals' actions are evaluated and justified. The extracts under analysis convey the criminals' viewpoints, and are analysed in terms of various connected stylistic models, including that of mind style, point of view, the type of narration employed, and the scale of interference that narration allows. The different criminals are contrasted in an attempt to provide answers to the ...
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