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Pulp fiction magazines  

Definition

  • Inexpensive fiction magazines, widely published from the 1920s through the 1950s, with fast-paced, lurid, sensational and exploitative stories in a wide variety of genre fiction, including, but not limited to, detective/mystery, science fiction, adventure, romance, war, horror/occult, and série noire; many classic science fiction and crime novels were originally serialised in pulp magazines; in Britain, they were called "story papers" [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulp_magazine]

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Entry terms

  • Magazines, pulp fiction
  • Pulp literature, magazines
  • Pulp magazines
  • Pulps, the
  • Story papers

Notation

  • 121443

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JLC-X1V5BTRW-H

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