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Originally Posted by Andrew H.
Genre fiction is not pulp fiction. There is a lineage, but there is also a huge difference. If reading genre fiction is like making love to a beautiful person, reading pulp fiction is like making love to a beautiful chimpanzee. The lineage is there, and you can see the relationship...and yet it's not the same at all.*  |
Did I say the two terms were interchangeable? No, I did not. However, neither form is "literary" or self-consciously pretentious. Pulp fiction and genre fiction are concerned with telling a story with a beginning, a middle, and an end, not exploring lofty concepts or trying to dazzle the reader with the author's supposed brilliance.
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*This theory has not been empirically tested. By me, at any rate.
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Good to know.