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puzzle of why audiences enjoy formulaic genre fiction whose plots they can predict and whose characters are thin.

In aesthetics, paradox of junk fiction refers to puzzle of why audiences enjoy formulaic genre fiction whose plots they can predict and whose characters are thin. This meaning comes from Carroll (1994) in Philosophy and Literature.[1]

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  1. Carroll, N. (1994). The Paradox of Junk Fiction. Philosophy and Literature, 18(2), 225-241. https://doi.org/10.1353/phl.1994.0054

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