
Pulp
Reading Popular Fiction
Scott McCracken(Author)
Manchester University Press
Published on 6. August 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-0-7190-4759-6 (ISBN)
Description
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. -- .
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. -- .
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Language
English
Place of publication
Manchester
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
311 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7190-4759-6 (9780719047596)
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Person
Scott McCracken is Lecturer in English at the University of Salford -- .
Content
Introduction - world, reader and text; bestsellers; detective fiction; popular romance; science fiction; popular romance; science fiction; gothic-horror; transgression and utopianism in popular fiction