Language, Ideology and Identity in Serial Killer Narratives

Language, Ideology and Identity in Serial Kil...

Language, Ideology and Identity in Serial Killer Narratives was written by and Christiana Gregoriou. The 208 page book was published by Routledge in 2011 (originally in 2010) with an ISBN 10 of 1136837841. Most books are now available in ebook, pdf and audible formats. If you need more information about this publication, it can be purchased at Amazon.com or Google Books. If the book is older and/or out of print book try to locate a copy on eBay.com. Language, Ideology and Identity in Serial Killer Narratives mentions 3 serial killers including Levi Bellfield. The author Christiana Gregoriou has 2 book(s) listed on Killer.Cloud used for the purpose of documenting facts about Serial Killers listed in our database.

Book 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 representation of serial killer ideology across factual (i.e. media texts), factional (i.e. true crime books) and fictional (i.e. novels) murder narratives. ‘Schem...