Book Review: Lesley Jeffries and Dan McIntyre, Stylistics

like? section, beginning p. 66), in the fictional accounts (while discussing Dexter and the ‘special ethics’ he enjoys with his audience, pp. 113–119), and in her masterful analysis of From Hell (p. 129–163). Also, in the light of recent mass murders in Norway and France, other manipulated attributes directly speak to ideology. For instance, other processes need to be considered, such as how culture, religion, race, relationship with eros and the political, mental health and disability discourses, state and the affective economies involved impact on serial killer ideology. These have not been highlighted in the schema proposed, and could benefit any future explorations of the subject. Nevertheless, Gregoriou’s contribution to linguistics through the analyses of ideology and identity in serial killer narratives is ground-breaking for one other important reason. Gregoriou proves, in her painstaking research, that regardless of fiction, fact or function, language deserves our attention in understanding the human condition. How the human condition in these extraordinary – albeit, more often than not, banal – dimensions is represented and simulated is truly revelatory for the academy and the societies involved.