pulp fiction

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16:57 Jan 28, 2010
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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.

Example sentence(s):
  • 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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4bahan bacaan fiksyen ditulis pada kertas kasar berkualiti rendah dari palpa kayu
Intan Suhana Mohamad Rahim


  

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bahan bacaan fiksyen ditulis pada kertas kasar berkualiti rendah dari palpa kayu


Definition from dictionary reference.com:
'Pulp fiction' merupakan bahan bacaan fiksyen yang kebanyakan menceritakan tentang subjek yang sensasi, mengerikan dan merangsangkan. Ape yang istimewa tentangnya adalah ia dicetak diatas kertas murah yang berkualiti rendah dibuat dari palpa kayu. Dari sumber itu ia mendapat nama 'pulp fiction'. Ia amat popular pada awal kemunculannya pada abad 90-an dan dijual pada harga yang amat murah.

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  • Ini adalah di antara contoh-contoh bentuk novel. Senarai ini hanya sebagai contoh kategori yang terdapat dalam pasaran: adventure novel / anti-novel / autobiographical novel / best seller or pulp fiction novel / children's novel / islamic novel / cult or coterie novel / detective, mystery. - norzailina.blogspot.com  
Intan Suhana Mohamad Rahim
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