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1. Popular Literature Concept, Issues, and Challenges

2. Popular Literature Popular literature includes those writings intended for the masses and those that find favour with large audiences. It can be distinguished from artistic literature because it is designed primarily to entertain. The growth of popular literature has paralleled the spread of literacy through education and has been facilitated by technological developments in printing. Popular literature, unlike high literature, generally does not seek a high degree of formal beauty or subtlety and is not intended to endure.

3. Characteristics of Popular Literature Driven by plot and characters are stock figures who serve the plot. Plain language which close to common language. Dialogues seem like everyday spoken language. Fewer obscure symbols and allegories are used. Symbols used are clear and can be easily comprehended by the readers.

4. Characteristics of Popular Literature They can be tied into current trends and concerns. It does not deal with abstract problems. Popular literature appeals to masses. Primarily entertaining. It does not demand a scholarly, intellectual response from the readers. Readers include all age groups.

5. Start of Popular Literature The formal, publishing category of "Popular Fiction" begins in the 19th Century - a time when wider literacy and cheaper printing make books available to middle-and-lower-class readers. Stories which engage the attention of many people over time have always existed and continue to inspire popular literature. We have always been fascinated with Romances, with Adventures, with Ghosts and Monsters and Crimes. However, once the "book" became a part of entertainment options for the masses, though, we had a flowering of new stories and themes.

6. Modern Popular Literature Popular literature today is produced either to be read by a literate audience or to be enacted on television or in the cinema. Popular fiction and drama, westerns and detective stories, films and television serials, all deal with the same great archetypal themes or in which it follows similar pattern- which simply the limits within which the human mind works.

7. Vitality of Popular Literature While "Popular Literature" was published and widely read in the 19th Century, by the 20 th Century it had become a world unto itself. During the 20th Century, the growth of readership and genres in "Popular Literature" made "Literary" Literature seems like a small and exclusive "academic and scholarly" market. The ratio of sales told it all: Popular Literature comprised almost 90 % of the market for fiction.

8. Themes The most important genre in popular literature is and always has been the romance, extending as it does from the Middle Ages to the present. The most common type of romance describes the obstacles encountered by two people (usually young) engaged in a forbidden love. Another common genre is that of fantasy, or science fiction. Novels set in the western frontier of the United States in the 19th century, and called westerns, are also popular. Finally, the detective story or murder mystery is a widely read form of popular literature. Popular literature has also come to include such genres as comic books and cartoon strips.

9. Issues and Challenges of Popular Literature The aesthetic theory of modernism not only respects writer’s choice of theme, technique and style. It can be claimed that modernism is largely democratic; it is against all kinds of discrimination. But the reality is, it discriminates. Popular literature is not at odds with the fact that its popularity is ephemeral and fleeting.

10. Issues and Challenges of Popular Literature Popular authors incline to familiar, cliché ridden and easily digestible language. Popular literature seems ready to sacrifice artistic values at the cost of popularity. We must admit that readers of popular literature don’t mind well-conceived opinions of literary critics. They keep reading what they find interesting, entertaining, quenching their repressed desires and close to their heart. They are basically pleasure-seekers and solace-finders.

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