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            • pulp fiction
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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 by
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    • Italian
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            • letteratura pulp
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            • I pulp magazine (o pulp fiction) erano delle economiche riviste di racconti che ebbero molto successo tra il 1920 e il 1950. Spesso si fa riferimento a loro chiamandole semplicemente "pulp". Il nome "pulp" deriva dalla carta con cui venivano stampate queste riviste, ottenuta dalla polpa dell'albero e quindi di qualità più scadente rispetto a quella ottenuta dal resto del tronco. Oltre ad essere più ruvida e spessa, aveva anche la caratteristica di ingiallire in breve tempo. Anche se molti rispettavano gli scrittori che scrivevano per i pulp, questi giornali sono stati ricordati principalmente per le loro storie sfacciate, violente e qualche volta oscene, e per le loro copertine sexy o raccapriccianti. Le copertine, in particolare, erano famose per i disegni di ragazze seminude, in genere in attesa di essere salvate dall'eroe di turno. Wikipedia - by Silvia Carli
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            • Avventurieri e Femme Fatale. Erano i protagonisti delle letteratura pulp, un mondo fatto di carta scadente, carne e sangue, in cui si mescolavano il poliziesco, il fantascientifico, il fantasy, il western, l'erotico, l'horror e il noir. - Sky by Silvia Carli
            • Il titolo del film, alla sua uscita, aveva destato interesse per il richiamo esplicito (Tarantino apre sceneggiatura e film con la definizione dell'American Heritage Dictionary del termine ) alla cosiddetta letteratura pulp, ovvero a quel genere popolare di riviste e libercoli diffusisi negli anni '20-'40, stampati su carta scadente (in gergo appunto pulp) e contenenti materiale letterario di serie B - Digilander by Silvia Carli
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    • Albanian
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            • letërsi masive (romane limonadë)
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            • Letërsia masive/masovike është një narracion tepër popullor që ka lindur që në shekullin XIX si fenomen social i qendrave të urbanizuara në kulturat paramoderniste. Kryesisht me zhanrin e romanit, kjo letërsi etiketohet si romani dedektiv; romani shkencor (science-fiction) dhe joshkencor (fantasy) ose fantastik; romani western dhe romani dashuror (romani i damave, romani rozë, i grave); fotoromanet dhe kinoromanet, romani mistik, historik. Emërtimet e njohura si “letërsi e verdhë”, “bulevardeske”, “konjukturale”, “ideologjike” etj, janë pjesë e orbitës së kësaj letërsie. Ndaj të gjithë këtyre zhanreve zbatohet gjithashtu termi literaturë triviale, argëtuese, eskapite, e tregut apo “e lirë“, - zhanër paraletërsi, beletristikë, më së mbrami dhe etiketimi vlerësues i vrazhdë “limonadë” - në të përkundërt me “elitaren”, “oborrtaren”, “aristokraten”, “dijetaren“; apo ndryshe letërsia e “ulët”, në të përkundërt me letërsinë e “lartë”. Gazeta Start - Agron Tufa - by Ledja
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            • Letërsia masive është një literaturë jo vetëm e imitimit, jetëgjasmimit, por edhe optimiste. Kjo është e lidhur si me kriticizmin social të zhanreve masive, ashtu dhe me “strukturën e mbyllur” të rrë fimit të një tipologjie të tillë, të të gjithë botës letrare dhe të imazhit të njeriut në letërsinë masive. - Fakulteti Filologjik, Univ. i Tetovës by Ledja
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            • pulproman
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            • Het lezerspubliek splitst zich op: er zijn teksten die worden geproduceerd voor massaconsumptie (pulpmagazines, stripverhalen, stationsromans, science-fictionverhalen, detectiveromans) daarvan afgeleid: pulpromans Wiki - by Roel Verschueren
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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 by Roel Verschueren
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            • дешеве чтиво
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            • дешеве чтиво (або просто "чтиво") - це дешева низькопробна література. Own research - by AndriyRubashnyy
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            • Для Василя Пилип’юка синкретизм української культури полягає у неподільності Істини, Краси і Добра, тобто тих категорій, на які нині шалено наступає сурогат чужої масової культури — рекламні ролики, трилери, бойовики, попса, дешеве чтиво, порнуха, чорнуха тощо. - www.day.kiev.ua by AndriyRubashnyy
            • роман, який можна переосмислювати знову і знову...дуже цікавий стиль, я такого ще не зустрічала.... не просто дешеве чтиво, таке взагалі не можна називати "чтивом"...це звучить надто дешево... хочеться собі придбати примірник і, вкотре перечитуючи, виділяти напівпрозорими різнокольоровими маркерами те, що найбільш цікаве і найбільш вразило...певно вся книжка буде розцяцькована... - viranda.blox.ua by AndriyRubashnyy
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