Cult Fiction: Popular Reading and Pulp Theory

By Clive Bloom

Book Overview

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 plays 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 regarded or forgotten, Cult Fiction provides a theory of kitsch art that radically alters our perceptions of literature and literary values while providing a panorama of an almost forgotten history: the history of pulp.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312213565
• ISBN13: 9780312213565
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Great Book!

This book is great! Unfortunately my last roommate took my copy, so I have to buy it again.

Disagree again

I must disagree with the reader from NY and agree with the one from Boston! After reading and checking the background to this book all information is correct! for example: I found no other pictures on the net! I would strongly recommend this book as a good buy!

Disagree!

I strongly disagree with this arguement, the book is extremely accurate in what it says and very well executed if i may say so! I think a judgement can only be made by an individual and i recommend that it be bought and your opinions put forward!

Cult Fiction

I found this book thouroughly interesting and an extremely good read!

Cult Fiction

Cult Fiction was the first serious study of popular fiction of this type, and was intended to be a scholarly and academic study. Lots of books are on the shelves now which have copied what Bloom started. But he is still the best. I would recommend this book for students of popular fiction and academics alike.