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16:57 Jan 28, 2010
English to Lithuanian translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature
Additional field(s): Cinema, Film, TV, Drama, Linguistics
English term or phrase: pulp fiction
Definition from Robert Harris - VirtualSalt:
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.

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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
  • 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.
  • 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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4bulvarinė literatūra
Kristina Radziulyte


  

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bulvarinė literatūra


Definition from en.wikipedia.org:
Istoriškai tai buvo populiarūs, tačiau menkos meninės vertės romanai, skirti masėms, egzistavę Amerikoje 1896-1950 metais. Žurnalo formato, buvo spausdinami ant pigaus laikraštinio popieriaus, iš čia pavadinimas ("pulp" - medienos masė). Standartinė apimtis: 128 puslapiai. Viliojo intriguojančiais viršeliais ir sensacingu, bauginančiu ar pikantišku siužetu. Žanrai patys įvairiausi - vesternas, detektyvas, fantastika, romantika, erotika. Standartinė šių romanų kaina buvo 10 centų. Spausdinti ant geresnio popieriaus kainavo 25 centus.

Dabartiniais laikais terminas "bulvarinė literatūra" vartojamas menkos meninės vertės romanams apibūdinti. Savo formatu ir popieriaus kokybe jie nesiskiria nuo "nebulvarinių".

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  • Negausus būrelis leidėjų skurdžioje šalyje dažniausiai priima tokius darbus, kuriuos lengva parduoti. Dažnai tai yra lengva bulvarinė literatūra, kurios meninis lygis nėra aukštas ir kuri nesuteikia peno apmąstymams. - bernardinai.lt  

Explanation:
Terminas "pulp fiction" dažnai siejamas su Q. Tarantino filmu "Pulp Fiction" ("Bulvarinis skaitalas", 1994).
Kristina Radziulyte
Lithuania
Local time: 06:47
Native speaker of: Lithuanian
PRO pts in category: 4
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