Definition of Pulp Fiction?

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What authors would you authors of pulp fiction? What do you personally consider the definition of pulp fiction to be?

Sorry, that question should read: What authors would you consider authors of pulp fiction.

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Pulp magazines (or pulp fiction; often referred to as "the pulps") were inexpensive fiction magazines. They were widely published from the 1920s through the 1950s. The term pulp fiction can also refer to mass market paperbacks since the 1950s.

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Definition Of Pulp Fiction

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Pulp Fiction Definition

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Definition of Pulp Fiction?
What authors would you authors of pulp fiction? What do you personally consider the definition of pulp fiction to be?

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Inexpensive mags printed on pulp woods. I'd call them the height of literacy in the US. Think about it, no TV, plenty of new leisure time, high literacy rate, resulted in a desire for inexpensive reading.

Popular fiction just like Popular TV wasn't highbrow and pretty. So plenty of lurid sex tales and violent adventure fiction. Freaky aliens, sex crimes, horror stories (hey they printed Lovecraft and Poe), chinese pirates, war, airplanes, and the list can go on and on.

Tarentino may have linked the name to the True Crime style stories, but you could look at almost any fiction, movie, or TV show of today and find a version in the pulps.
Sci-fi was born in the pulps, the old penny westerns were reborn there, plenty of knock off detective stories,and lurid tales of unwed mothers and white slavery.

Authors? H P Lovecraft, E.E. Smith, Cordwainer Smith, (more sci-fi legends than can be named)

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Pulp fiction is fantastic, escapist fiction for the general entertainment of the mass audiences. The term originated from the magazines of the first half of the 20th century which were printed on cheap "pulp" paper. Bigger-than-life heroes, pretty girls, exotic places, strange and mysterious villains all stalked the pages of the many issues available to the general public on the magazine stands.

Many authors that got their start in the pulp magazines grew to be great writers that changed the landscape of popular fiction. Pulp writers included Carroll John Daly, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Max Brand, H.P. Lovecraft, Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, and Ray Bradbury.

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Low quality, high volume literature. I can't name authors because I only read good stuff.

I'm reminded of that awful John Travolta movie called Pulp Fiction. It was appropriately titled.

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Ever heard of the expression "Penny Dreadfully"? It was a trade term used in England to describe cheap paperback novels (Detective stories, Romance novels and Westerns). Look out for the old "Larry Kent" and "Larry and Stretch" books. They were Your typical "Dime" novels, and I think they are still in production. Pulp fiction novels were printed on a slightly grey colored paper of an inferior quality, hence the "pulp" reference. Those not sold were eventually returned to the publisher and recycled,"pulped", over and over again.

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I would author the author of pulp fiction to be Quentin Tarrantino. (weirdo in my book). My husband had to explain it to me, I just didn't get it. It seemed like a movie that skipped around explaining plots to try to keep people interested in it. He tried to say that the one guy was a good role model by stopping being a hitman by turning Christian, but he still killed people!!!!

It was different, one that I would take the kids to. Or I wouldn't want the kids to watch, ever. Very weird, different, but I guess if you are into that, go for it.

btw, authors that I would author?

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definition: what the literary critic considered as low brow fictions