The Reflections of Popular Culture in Literature

Abstract

The line between popular culture and established culture is quite shifty. Some arts in fact have popular culture as their theme. The cultural references can interchange between accepted culture and popular culture. Many a critic makes a difference between popular culture and mass culture. The ‘mass culture’ is used to denote popular culture stuff that has been assumed by marketing interests. Very often a distinction is made between the popular culture and elite culture too. The Elite culture inclines to be culture that has been carried forward to the social norms and that is chosen by the affluent and influential in society. In another way we can define popular culture as a culture created by sub cultural groups in order to find a resolution to a problem. In order to identify the members of the sub culture group members popular cultural materials are used abundantly. Popular culture fiction is promoted as category work. Genre literature is a type of mass and popular culture stuff. Science fiction as a genre has been innovative in introducing characters with non-traditional gender roles, characters of colour, and characters with alternate routines.