Pulp: Reading popular fiction
Book Details
Author(s)
Scott McCracken
Publisher
Manchester University Press
ISBN / ASIN
0719047595
ISBN-13
9780719047596
Availability
In stock. Usually ships within 2 to 3 days.
Sales Rank
#3,130,876
Category
Literary Criticism
Marketplace
United States 🇺🇸
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.
