Ray Skirsky wrote:
> I have some 1890s Strand magazines, and they look
like pulps, but the paper
> was slick. The
> type of fiction in them is more akin to American
pulps than to American
> slicks.
Well, this poses quite a problem: in 1890s there were no
pulps, so how can one say that the type of fiction in Strand
magazines was akin to pulp. I know that Argosy started in
1896, but was it real pulp at the time? I don't think so.
Maybe you're thinking dime novel fiction, which certainly was
a forerunner to much of the pulp fiction.
> If you don't consider
> Sherlock Holmes pulp, then what about Prof.
Challenger?
I don't know such character.
> I'm aware that Fu Manchu's US appearances
were
> in slicks (Colliers, I believe) but were his
adventure tales (or Kipling's) all
> that different
> from, say, Talbot Mundy?
Haven't read any Talbot Mundy. I know him, of course, but
these exotic adventures seem to form a subgenre in pulp
fiction that can be and usually is separated from the usual
definitions of pulp fiction. Well, there is Edgar Rice
Burroughs, who isn't considered a pulp writer, even though he
was namely that.
> The direction I'm going here is that I think that my
definition of pulp is
> that, if it was written in the
> time of the pulps, and it wouldn't look out of place
serialized in
> Adventure, or Argosy, or Thrilling
> Detective, or Weird Tales, or Short Stories, or,
.... Then it is pulp
> fiction, regardless of where it
> appeared.
Agatha Christie? John Dickson Carr? They were published in
pulp magazines, would you consider them pulp fiction? Would
Tarantino qualify them as pulp fiction? And what about
Gorman, Greenberg and Pronzini?
> After the pulp era, well, if you could transport it
back to the
> pulp era, would it fit in?
Sax Rohmer published many paperback originals in the fifties,
I think with Fawcett
(if I'm wrong, correct me). Maybe he is pulp fiction after
all.
Juri
jurnum@utu.fi
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