Paraliterature
Paraliterature comprises written works dismissed as not literary. It includes commercial fiction, popular fiction, pulp fiction, comic books and, most notably, genre fiction with works of science fiction, fantasy, mystery and others.:361 The term was originally used in French literary studies to 'designate a phenomenon characteristic of the age of mass communications - the fantastic spread of a mass literature', and as early as 1970 a special collection of critical articles on paraliterature appeared in France.:95-96 Art critic and scholar Rosalind Krauss brought the term to prominence in the United States through her text 'Poststructuralism and the "Paraliterary"' (1980).