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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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            • literatura popular
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            • La literatura popular, tantas veces rendida ante la crítica culta, abre necesariamente un espacio a la considerada literatura pulp. El término, antiguo como él solo, cobra vigor con la película de Tarantino: su culto a lo presuntamente cutre acaba convertido en reivindicación histórica de los olvidados, a veces no tan buenos, a veces magníficos. Elpais.com - by Sandra Leoni
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            • Esta página está dedicada al archivo y difusión de las tapas de diversas publicaciones de literatura popular hispánica de los siglos XIX y XX, con énfasis en los ejemplos argentinos. Coloridas y apasionantes, fueron a menudo obra de grandes artistas como Palau, Macaya, Longoria y Albistur. Bienvenidos a este variopinto y nostálgico desfile de revistas, libros y folletines. - Museo de Literatura Popular. by Sandra Leoni
            • Literatura popular norteamericana pretendidamente "undergound", que se difundió a principios del siglo XX en determinadas revistas como "Weird tales", "All-story", "Amazing Stories", o "Black Mask Magazine". Lo "pulp" se caracteriza por su culto a la acción, y participa tanto de la novela negra, de la gótica y de la ciencia ficción en igual medida. El director de cine Quentin Tarantino, consagró el término en el título de su película "Pulp Fiction" (1994) - Diccionario Literario by Sandra Leoni
            • Las aventuras de los personajes citados conforman un corpus narrativo enérgico y primordial, de entre los más notables de la delirante literatura popular (pulp fiction) que alcanzase su esplendor en Estados Unidos durante la Gran Depresión. - Revista Comic Digital by Sandra Leoni
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