Pulp magazine

... Dime novels were cheap paperback books that sensationalized the adventures of frontier hunters, scouts, gold miners, cowboys, outlaws, and detectives. They were rejected by the educated classes, but they appealed to the reading public that emerged around the time of the Civil War, as they presented American ideals in a simple way, with plots in which the good guys always win and the bad guys always perish. In the 20th century, they were replaced by sensationalist magazines known as pulp magazines, but they can be said to represent the basic form of American popular literature. [Kamei Shunsuke]...

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Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…　ダイム･ノベルは安っぽい紙表紙の本で，辺境の猟師，スカウト(斥候)，金鉱採掘者，カウボーイ，アウトロー，探偵などの冒険をセンセーショナルに語り，教育のある階層からは排斥されたが，善人が必ず勝ち悪人は必ず滅びる筋立てで，アメリカの理想を素朴に打ち出し，南北戦争前後から登場した庶民的読書階層に訴えた。20世紀に入ると，〈パルプ雑誌pulp magazine〉と呼ばれる扇情的読物雑誌に取って代わられたが，アメリカ大衆文学の基本の型を示すものといってよい。【亀井 俊介】。…

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