Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Crime Scenes; 2 Killer Headlines; 3 True Crime!; 4 Buying Crime; 5 The Verdict; Appendix 1: UK Newspapers; Appendix 2: US newspapers; Bibliography; Index
Summary
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 ideology and identity across these narrative genres? By employing linguistic and content-related methods of analysis, her study aims to work toward the development of a stylistic framework on the representatio
