GROUP PRESENTATION TOPIC

THE POPULAR FICTION,

SUBSECTION POPULARITY

SUBMITTED TO :-
PROF. MUMTAZ AHMED
SUBMITTED BY:-
MAHRUKH

COURSE TITLE :- POPULAR NARRATIVE

BS ENGLISH

8TH SEMESTER EVENING

INTRODUCTION TO POPULAR FICTION:

• ‘Popular fiction’ is a deceptively simple phrase, at once indispensable and

commonplace, yet often left unsettlingly vague. One of the problems with
finding a clear definition of popular fiction is that the object of study is not
always clear.
• In this volume, we identify the late nineteenth century as the period when the
genres that constitute so much of popular fiction emerge; but we recognise
that the reception of these genres is in a state of continuous evolution.
INTRODUCTION TO KEN GELDER:

• Ken Gelder is a Reader in English at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

• His books include Reading the Vampire (Routledge 1994) and, with Jane M.
Jacobs, Uncanny Australia: Sacredness and Identity in a Postcolonial Nation
(Melbourne University Press, 1998).
• He is co-editor of The Subcultures Reader (1997) and editor of The Horror
Reader (2000), both published by Routledge.
POPULAR FICTION:

• The field of popular fiction a phase I shall account for in although its
meaning is fairly self-evident.
• Logic and Practices regards as its opposite namely literary fiction or
literature.
• The field of popular fiction is therefore quietly literally a culture industry.
• The term Culture Industry was invested by Theodor W. Ardarno and Max
Horkheimer.
• Clive Bloom’s book provides a lists of writer of bestsellers arranged
chronologically from 1900 to the present day.
• Nora Robert and Johanna Lindsey, two of the biggest sellers in the world.
• Over 2000 romantic novels around 600 and 800 originally fantasy, science
fiction and horror novels are now published each year.
• John Sutherland’s book also notes a numbers of literary novels that have sold
in high numbers.
• D.H. Lawrence’s erotic classic, Lady Chatterley’s lover- a work of literature,
not popular fiction.
• The Crime Writers Association of Great Britain founded in 1953.
• The Lord of the Rings Trilogy 1st published in 1950s.
POPULARITY:-
• Although Henry James was himself a prolific novelist, his output was high simply in the
order to try to the makes ends meets.
• Academic studies of the modern novel begins with Henry James and the cases even with
him.
• “The Little Review” was published in Paris in 1922.
• From 1913 to 1918, it might be worth nothing than in 1915, during Sabatini’s times.
• The 24 _ volume New York Edition of his collected novels and tales published in 1907.
• The first edition of James Joyce’s literary master _ piece Ulysses was published in Paris
in February 1922.
• James Joyce’s early collection of short stories, Dubliners, sold only 499 copies in
1914, just short of the amount required for Joyce to receive royalties.
• For Tom Shippey, who has written the best study of the 1950s epic fantasy The Lord
of the Rings, Tolkien was the ‘author of the 20th century’, greater even than Joyce
himself.
• James Joyce’s early collection of short stories, Dubliners, sold only 499 copies in
1914, just short of the amount required for Joyce to receive royalties.
• For Tom Shippey, who has written the best study of the 1950s epic fantasy The Lord
of the Rings, Tolkien was the ‘author of the 20th century’, greater even than Joyce
himself.
• A writer produces popular fiction because he or she intends to reach a large number
of readers.
The End