Pulp Fiction

Throughout all events in history and through all decades of art and literature, one thing has been made abundantly clear: Humans do not enjoy oppression. Humanity is consistent in its innate desire to fight any oppressive leader or social behavior that infringes on their rights as an individual. Whether it be through social and political movements or war, humankind has shown that what every individual wants - above all else - is freedom. They crave the freedom to live as they choose, protecting…

Wonderland, and Winnie-the-Pooh, where known as the golden age of children books. The Virginian and Riders of the Purple Sage made westerns a new unique American genres. Also, genres like science fiction, horror, mystery, and romance started spring up in the dime novels, these were stories that cost a dime to buy. Pulp stories were coming about too, they were sordid tales of murder, prostitution, and gangster’s violence: others told more of fantastical stories about aliens and monsters. How…

Brothers have exhibited a preoccupation with the themes, characters, and stylistic techniques of film noir. The Coens were already making consciously comic use of noir plots and stylistic techniques before Tarantino did with Reservoir Dogs (1992) and Pulp Fiction (1994) (Conard 137). Neo-noir evinces a strong inclination toward pastiche and the satiric, which Fargo exemplifies wonderfully. The Coens execute this by focusing on traditional noir character types and intricate plots whose complexity…

I used to be the person who would go to certain classifications of movies. Anything that was labeled Independent I always thought was for the fancy French person who got something out of it that my simple non-artistic mind couldn't possibly grasp. One day I stumbled across a movie that had good reviews but it was labeled the dreaded genre, Independent. Oh whoa to me I felt like it would be too weird for my mind to grasp. Let me tell you, if you were like me, you are dead wrong about the…

Examples which challenge Freud's assertion are found in the central protagonist of the film Pulp Fiction where John Travolta's character, Vincent Vega, finds himself at the wrong end of several narratives including a diner that gets robbed, a busted job, and going out with the bosses wife who over doses on his drugs. Vega lacks any sort of Providence…

R.S. Qwynn, in the fiction headnotes section of Literature: A Pocket Anthology, defines and discusses the various elements of fiction. Short stories began by the influence of Italian novella. People trying to escape countries told novellas, which included stories such as frame tales. The nineteenth century is when short stories became a known literary genre because of the wide literature environment. Edgar Allan Poe was a very influential short story writer, with his idea of single effect. Most…

Ernest Hemingway A Biographical Criticism Introduction Ernest Hemingway was among the most significant authors in the 20th century. Hemingway’s publications, in form of short fiction and novels left imprints on the literary system of not only the USA, but the entre globe as a whole (Ebersole,143).Currently, the author who is also a Nobel prize winner, is considered among the greatest novelists and is especially renowned for famous works among them A Farewell To Arms and The Old Man And The Sea…

spoken by the main antagonist of William Faulkner's Sanctuary, Popeye, to the pseudo protagonist Horace Benbow. This privileging of the act of telling over showing sets the narrative direction for the rest of the novel. Faulkner’s foray in dark crime-fiction certainly eschews a ‘showing’ of the more sexual and violent details that a more typical novel in the genre would, choosing to slowly unravel details as the story progress through incomplete retellings by characters, leaving the most…

innovation in style, voice, structure, characterization, plot and/org description.” Mentioned by name here, innovation is also assumed in order for a work to “not merely conform to the expectations of a single genre” and “not fall into the traps of “pulp” fiction.” Seven other are listed, such as a need for “an artistic manner” or themes that “merit revisiting and study because they are complex and nuanced” (Gilmore 7), but without the originality called for in the innovation stipulation, these…

They all describe that brow literature, PULP FICTION. The pulps, magazines and paperback novels, were North America's favorite form of escape for nearly sixty years. From the 1890s to the 1950s, pulp fiction delivered lavish cover art, fantastic illustrations and action packed stories for the public. Although entertaining, the majority of the population that bought these publications thought very little of them; they used and discarded pulp fiction like a dirty condom. It was not quality art…