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Pulp: Reading Popular Fiction  
Author: Scott McCracken
ISBN: 0719047595
Format: Handover
Publish Date: June, 2005
 
     
     
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Book Description
Pulp brings together in one volume chapters on the bestseller, 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 particularly Jackie Collins, Jilly Cooper, Colin Dexter, William Gibson, Stephen King, Iain Banks, Terry McMillan and Walter Mosley. Scott McCracken argues that popular fiction serves a vital function in the late twentieth century: it provides us with the means to construct a workable sense of self in the face of the disorientating pressures of modernity.


About the Author
Scott McCracken is Lecturer in English at the University of Salford.





Pulp: Reading Popular Fiction

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Pulp brings together in one volume chapters on the bestseller, 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 particularly Jackie Collins, Jilly Cooper, Colin Dexter, William Gibson, Stephen King, lain Banks, Terry McMillan and Walter Mosley. Scott McCracken argues that popular fiction serves a vital function in the late twentieth century: it provides us with the means to construct a workable sense of self in the face of the disorientating pressures of modernity.

FROM THE CRITICS

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Uses the critical approaches of modern social and cultural theory to understand the transaction between world, reader, and text in the realm of reading and understanding popular fiction. Analysis of texts of popular fiction also draws on literary theories to look at form. Marxist, psychoanalytic, feminist, and postcolonial criticism are used to analyze the modern self and the accounts of fragmentation that characterize modern and postmodern cultural forms. Paper edition (unseen), $22.95. Distributed by St. Martin's Press. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

     



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