Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
pulp fiction
Polish translation:
literatura brukowa
Jan 28, 2010 16:55
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English term
pulp fiction
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English to Polish
Art/Literary
Poetry & Literature
Definition from
Robert Harris - VirtualSalt:
Novels written for the mass market, intended to be "a good read,"--often exciting, titillating, thrilling. Historically they have been very popular but critically sneered at as being of sub-literary quality. The earliest ones were the dime novels of the nineteenth century, printed on newsprint (hence "pulp" fiction) and sold for ten cents. Westerns, stories of adventure, even the Horatio Alger novels, all were forms of pulp fiction.
Example sentences:
At five to twenty-five cents an issue, pulp fiction was a literature accessible to Americans at every income level—often sold at newsstands and drugstores. Until the mid-1950s, pulp fiction was the literature of choice for the reading public, before it was supplanted by comic books and paperbacks. (The Library of Congress-American Memory)
The pulp fiction era provided a breeding ground for creative talent which would influence all forms of entertainment for decades to come. The hardboiled detective and science fiction genres were created by the freedom that the pulp fiction magazines provided. (Vintage New Media, inc.)
Pulp fiction was a great avenue to escape the mundane and escape into a world of gangsters and good guys, cowboys and cattlemen, spaceships and star travelers. For a thin dime one could read from the pens of some of the best writers of the era: the era of pulp fiction. (Robert Wheadon)
Proposed translations
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4 +2 | literatura brukowa |
Pawel Buda (X)
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Joanna Machnica
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Jan 28, 2010 15:21: changed "Kudoz queue" from "In queue" to "Public"
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Jan 31, 2010 17:59: changed "Stage" from "Submission" to "Completion"
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literatura brukowa
Definition from
onet.pl:
W odniesieniu do literatury:<br />Literatura odpustowa realizowała zapotrzebowanie czytelników poszukujących łatwych w odbiorze utworów (...) rozrywkowych, posługujących się nierzadko niewybrednymi lub trywialnie sensacyjnymi chwytami (tzw. literatura brukowa).
Example sentences:
Pulp Fiction Tytuł określa jednoznacznie źródła inspiracji - to literatura brukowa, wagonowa, która od zarania kina była podstawą kinowych scenarzystów. (rp.pl)
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pulp fiction
Definition from
portal wydawniczy:
Pulp fiction – mieszanka przemocy, szybkiej akcji i cynicznego humoru – gatunek, który zrodził się z amerykańskich rozczarowań po pierwszej wojnie światowej, a obecnie znów sięga szczytów popularności.
Example sentences:
Był to zresztą jakiś banalny paperback z gatunku "pulp fiction" - nie chodziło przecież o samą książkę, tylko o zamanifestowanie (...) (Gazeta Wyborcza (online))
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