POPULAR CULTURE AND POPULAR ENGLISH FICTION: THEIR ROLE IN GLOBALISATION
Keywords:
- fiction, opportunity, continual, relaxation, universalAbstract
The popular fiction has generally been dismissed by literary critics as an error of popular taste. They have shunned popular fiction as cheap and hence vulnerable to mass taste and easily corruptible. But of late the old notion that real culture should never aspire to be popular has itself become unpopular even in the academic world. Despite the strong reservations of some scholars, many critics have begun to see ‘pop culture’ as a means of depicting the myths, hopes and fears of a society. The materialistic life that we live today allows little opportunity for initiative and personal expression. Due to lack of love and passion in the life of the people, their tensions accumulate and they turn to the arts for an outlet. The popular culture is a means of expression for them. The popular culture does not unleash like the comic or tragic theatre of old, a violent purgation of the deepest crisis; rather it provides a continual draining off, of the tensions nearest the surface. The popular culture is a more acceptable means of relaxation and this probably accounts for its universal appeal in the modern times.
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