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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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- "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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- Myslím, že "šestáková" vyjadřuje jak pokleslost obsahu, tak i tu lacinost nekvalitního dřevitého papíru, na kterém byly tyto skvosty tištěny. Termín Pulp fiction je totiž odvozen právě z termínu pro tento nekvalitní papír: wood pulp paper. Own research - by David König
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- Šesták býval symbolem lacinosti skutečné i symbolické: výraz šestáková literatura sloužil jako označení brakové četby. - internet
by David König - Ve Philipu Marlowovi Chandler vytvořil kombinaci svého vlastního charakteru – tedy sklony k alkoholismu, kouření a ironické vyjadřování, a tradičního hrdiny šestákové literatury. - wikipedia
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- Првото драмско дело на Загорка е едночинката „Што умее жената“, изведена во 1901 година во Хрватското народно казалиште, која од тогашната унгарско-германска критика било дочекано на нож. Во тоа време, мошне влијателниот критичар Ото Краус ќе напише: „Сите нека запаметат, дека се што оваа авторка пишува, што напишала и што ќе има дрскост да напише, е и останува за сите времиња и за сите генерации-шунд литература за краварки.“ - Премин портал
by Irena Kacarski-Kimova - Книгоиздателствата не се отворени кон новите медиуми за комуникација и книжарниците се преполнети со шунд-литература, сметаат студентите - Дневник
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