Introduction to Popular Literature PDF

Search for courses, books or documents Introduction to Popular Literature Middle Ages to the present. The most Popular literature gives social common type of romance describes the information to people. obstacles...

Search for courses, books or documents Introduction to Popular Literature Middle Ages to the present. The most Popular literature gives social common type of romance describes the information to people. obstacles encountered by two people Popular literature is fiction that does (usually young) engaged in a forbidden not deal with abstract problems; it takes love. Another common genre is that of moral principles as the given, accepting fantasy, or science fiction. Novels set in certain generalized, common-sense the western frontier of the United States ideas and values as its base. in the 19th century, and called (Common-sense values and westerns, are also popular. Finally, the conventional values are detective story or murder mystery is a not the same thing; the first can be widely read form of popular literature. justified rationally, the second cannot. Popular literature has also come to Even though the second may include include such genres as comic books and some of the first, they are justified, not cartoon strips. on the ground of reason, but on the What is the Nature of Popular Literature ground of social conformity.) Popular Literature This literature is sold more than Popular literature includes those traditional literary pieces. It is one of writings intended for the masses and the commercially viable(feasible) those that find favor with large modes, especially prose fiction. audiences. It can be distinguished from It is both a creature and creator of artistic literature in that it is designed popular taste due to the reliable index primarily to entertain. of the majority. Popular fiction does not raise or For example, would be the work of answer abstract questions; it assumes James Hilton and James Michener are that man knows what he needs to know seldom taken seriously, but their works in order to live, and it proceeds to show are much of great influence than the his adventures in living (which is one of canonical, serious writers. the reasons for its popularity among all types of readers, including the problem- Different Genres of Popular laden intellectuals). The distinctive Literature My Library characteristic of popular fiction is the I. ROMANCE absence of an explicitly ideational element, of the intent to convey WHAT IS ROMANCE? intellectual information (or In the strictest academic terms, a misinformation). romance is a narrative genre in literature that involves a mysterious, The boundary between artistic and adventurous, or spiritual story line popular literature is murky, with much where the focus is on a quest that traffic between the two categories involves bravery and strong values, not according to current public preference always a love interest. However, and later critical modern definitions of romance also evaluation. While he was alive William include stories that have a relationship Shakespeare could be thought of as a issue as the main focus. writer of popular literature, but he is now regarded as a creator of artistic TYPES OF ROMANCE literature. Indeed, the main, though not invariable, method of defining a work as A. GOTHIC belonging to popular literature is whether it is ephemeral, that is, losing In Gothic romance, the settings are its appeal and significance with the usually in distant regions and the passage of time. stories feature dark and compelling The most important genre in popular characters. They became popular in the literature is and always has been the late 19th century and usually had a romance, extending as it does from the sense of transcendence, supernatural,