An edition of Cult fiction (1996)

Cult Fiction

Popular Reading and Pulp Theory

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An edition of Cult fiction (1996)

Cult Fiction

Popular Reading and Pulp Theory

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Here is an exploration of pulp literature and pulp mentalities: an investigation into the nature and theory of the contemporary mind in art and in life. Here too, the violent, the sensational and the erotic signify different facets of the modern experience played out in the gaudy pages of kitsch literature.

Clive Bloom offers the reader a chance to investigate the underworld of literary production and from it find a new set of co-ordinates for questions regarding publishing and reading practices in America and Britain, ideas of genre, problems related to commercial production, concerns regarding high and low culture, the canon and censorship, as well as a discussion of the rhetoric of current critical debate.

Concentrating on remembered authors as well as many long disregarded or forgotten, Cult Fiction provides a theory of kitsch art that radically alters our perceptions of literature and literary values while providing a panorama of an almost forgotten history: the history of pulp.

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Palgrave Macmillan
Language
English
Pages
272

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Cult Fiction: Popular Reading and Pulp Theory
June 15, 1998, Palgrave Macmillan
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Cover of: Cult fiction
Cult fiction: popular readings and pulp theory
1996, St. Martin's Press
in English
Cover of: Cult fiction
Cult fiction: popular reading and pulp theory
1996, St. Martin's Press
in English
Cover of: Cult fiction
Cult fiction: popular readings and pulp theory
1996, Macmillan Press
in English

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"Cult Fiction is an exploration of pulp literature and pulp mentalities: an investigation into the nature and theory of the contemporary mind in art and in life."

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Number of pages
272
Dimensions
8.3 x 5.1 x 0.8 inches
Weight
13.8 ounces

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Open Library
OL9364976M
ISBN 10
0312213565
ISBN 13
9780312213565
OCLC/WorldCat
40937146
Library Thing
144269
Goodreads
538492

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