Western Popular Fiction: Genres and Values

Author: Wang Jing
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Publish Date: 2002-04-01
Features: This book is divided into seven chapters, covering topics such as the distinction between popular literature and pure literature, the social value of popular novels, the types of popular novels, traditional motifs in popular novels and human cultural psychology, etc. The author does not confine himself to traditional academic evaluations but conducts a positive exploration and analysis of the types and value of popular novels, thereby revealing their profound historical and socio-cultural roots of emergence, existence, and development. It opens up an academic research path for the criticism of popular culture.