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4 - Ideology in Mainstream Crime Fiction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2023

By
John Douthwaite
Edited by
John Douthwaite  and
Ulrike Tabbert
John Douthwaite
Affiliation:
Università degli Studi di Genova
Ulrike Tabbert
Affiliation:
University of Huddersfield
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Summary

Douthwaite takes Graham’s novel Written in Blood and the Midsomer Murders TV series as a prototypical representative of conservative crime fiction to lay bare the ideological workings of that sub-genre and of the linguistic techniques it employs to position readers/viewers, offering close readings of the texts to bear out the arguments. In so doing he deploys all the analytical tools stylistics offers the analyst.

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conservative crime writingideologystylisticsclose readingsuasion
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The Linguistics of Crime , pp. 57 - 87
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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