Pulp: Reading Popular Fiction

by Scott McCracken

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Pulp brings together in one volume chapters on the best seller, detective fiction, popular romance, science fiction and horror. It combines a lucid and accessible account of the cultural theories that have informed the study of popular fiction with detailed readings of Jackie Collins, Jilly Cooper, Colin Dexter, William Gibson, Stephen King, Iain Banks, Terry McMillan and Walter Mosley.

Scott Mc Cracken argues that popular fiction serves a vital function: it provides us with the means to construct a workable sense of self in the face of the disorientating pressures of modernity.

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0719047595

ISBN13:9780719047596

Release Date:August 1998

Publisher:Manchester University Press

Length:224 Pages

Weight:0.75 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Related Subjects

Books & Reading Classics Criticism & Theory General History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literary Theory Literature Modern (16th-21st Centuries)

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