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Cult Fiction - Popular Reading and Pulp Theory (Hardcover)
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Cult Fiction - Popular Reading and Pulp Theory (Hardcover)
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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 whilst providing a panorama of an almost forgotten
history: the history of pulp.
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