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- Novels written for the mass market, intended to be "a good read,"--often exciting, titillating, thrilling. Historically they have been very popular but critically sneered at as being of sub-literary quality. The earliest ones were the dime novels of the nineteenth century, printed on newsprint (hence "pulp" fiction) and sold for ten cents. Westerns, stories of adventure, even the Horatio Alger novels, all were forms of pulp fiction. Robert Harris - VirtualSalt
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- At five to twenty-five cents an issue, pulp fiction was a literature accessible to Americans at every income level—often sold at newsstands and drugstores. Until the mid-1950s, pulp fiction was the literature of choice for the reading public, before it was supplanted by comic books and paperbacks. - The Library of Congress-American Memory
by - The pulp fiction era provided a breeding ground for creative talent which would influence all forms of entertainment for decades to come. The hardboiled detective and science fiction genres were created by the freedom that the pulp fiction magazines provided. - Vintage New Media, inc.
by - Pulp fiction was a great avenue to escape the mundane and escape into a world of gangsters and good guys, cowboys and cattlemen, spaceships and star travelers. For a thin dime one could read from the pens of some of the best writers of the era: the era of pulp fiction. - Robert Wheadon
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- Régebben a köznép szórakoztatására szánt, vásári ponyván árult irodalmi alkotások. ÁImoskönyvek, mondák, mesék, betyártörténetek mellett remekművek is kerültek ponyvára (pl.: Petőfi Sándor versei).
Művészileg igénytelen, alacsony színvonalú alkotások, legtöbbször ponyvairodalomregények. Témájuk főleg a bűnüldözés, a kémkedés, valamilyen szentimentális kaland stb. Célja kizárólag a figyelem lekötése izgalmas v. annak szánt cselekménnyel. Káros társ. jelenséggé akkor válik, ha sikerűl kiszorítania az olvasmányok köréből az értékes irodalmat. http://www.kislexikon.hu/ponyvairodalom.
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- "littérature, roman de gare : que l'on trouve dans les kiosques de gare, de lecture facile." Own research - by ALIAS trad
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- Côté poche, encore moins d'originalité puisque Marc Levy, Harlan Coben, Patricia Cornwell, Mary Higgins Clark et Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt se partagent l'affiche. On appréciera toujours autant la présence de deux Harlequin et d'un SAS dans ce même classement, signe que le poche est bien souvent synonyme de roman de gare (Clark aurait pu nous mettre la puce à l'oreille ceci-dit). - Krinein magazine
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- Palp fikšn (pulp fiction), uobičajeno prevodimo kao petparačke priče, i to je lep izraz koji ništa lepog ne govori o onome što označava. Petparačke, dakle jeftine priče, s pravom bismo mogli osloviti i neotesanima Blic - dodatak - by itchi
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- Ne pišem o Tarantinovom filmu već o ljubavnim romanima koji su se nekada davno prodavali po ceni od pet para. Vreme je prolazilo, novi ljubavni romani su se nizali, sadržina tih romana se menjala samo po imenima glavnih junaka, cena je zbog inflacije rasla, ali su romani koji su i dalje izlazili vredeli isto koliko i na početku. Pet para. - Vukajlija - rečnik slenga
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- Het lezerspubliek splitst zich op: er zijn teksten die worden geproduceerd voor massaconsumptie (pulpmagazines, stripverhalen, stationsromans, science-fictionverhalen, detectiveromans)
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- Pulpromans vormen een literair genre dat niet zozeer uitblinkt door een sterk plot of personage, maar vanwege de sociale functie die zij vervullen. Een pulproman is doorgaans vrij omvangrijk en kent een snelle aaneenschakeling van acties, intriges of avontuur en treft men voornamelijk aan in kiosken van treinstations en luchthavens, hoewel ze in het Nederlands taalgebied ook in de reguliere boekhandel te verkrijgen zijn. - Wiki
by Roel Verschueren - Een pulproman moet noodzakelijkerwijs oppervlakkig, innemend en toegankelijk zijn zonder dat zij noodzakelijkerwijs over een bijzonder diepgaande of filosofische inhoud beschikt, of althans voor zover deze inhoud noodzakelijk is voor het uiteindelijke genot van het boek. - Wiki
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