Question

how does Christopher Pawling view the dichotomy between 'high' literature and popular or mass literature in his essay 'popular fiction: ideology. or utopia​

Answer 1

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Answer 2

Following are the views of Christopher Pawling on the dichotomy between 'high' literature and popular literature in his essay 'Popular Fiction: Ideology or Utopia".

Explanation:

• Despite the growth of interest in popular fiction, it has been hard to familiarise courses on them in college and university syllabi because it is still not deliberated as mainstream literature, just a peripheral or minor genre.  

• The self-definition of English literature relies heavily on what is absent from its arena - it's significant other- popular literature or para-literature whose deficiency from the syllabus allows us to define the central literary culture.

• Paraliterature is a sort of ‘taboo’ counter to which the ‘self’ of literature proper is shaped.  

• A discipline that doesn’t take into account 90% of its sphere seems to have a biased vision in the small zone it concentrates on. i.e. high literature.  

• In the past few years, there has been an effort to initiate interdisciplinary courses.  

• The preconception against popular literature has gone down because it gathers the widest readership.  

• It is also more inseparably linked to ‘other’ aesthetic means of communication like film and TV.