CONTEMPORARY, POPULAR AND

EMERGENT LITERATURE
Issues and Challenges
in
Popular Literature

MA'AM ERMILA NIEGOS

Presented by: Shekinah Montecir
 OBJECTIVES
IDENTIFY THE DIFFERENT ISSUES AND
CHALLENGES IN POPULAR LITERATURE

REACT ON ISSUES AND CHALLENGES IN

POPULAR LITERATURE
ISSUES AND
C HALLENGES
IN POPULAR
LITERATURE
INTRODUCTION
Literature is in crisis. People have
no interest in reading. There are a
few hangers-on, but even we read
less than others used to.
change in inevitable. The question is,
what changes are good, and which
are to be fought?
? Literature is worth fighting for, but
the literati are contributing to their
own demise in many significant
ways. Here are some factors and
causes of the literary crisis
ISSUES AND CHALLENGES
IN POPULARLITERATURE
postmoderns argue that
text and meaning are
inherently separate—can’t
Post-modernism.
get there from here. It’s
all subjective. It doesn’t
mean. “All writing is
lying.”
 Mass media
Reading is a task that requires time and effort
(usually); you can’t pitch convenience or speed to
someone when discussing literature. Movies are more
action-packed (though usually watered down); TV
entertains; video games excite; the internet always
has a myriad of things to do.
LOTS OF
BOOKS ARE
BAD.
Bad works of literature
negatively affect the works that
have lasting merit; people who
have had a bad experience
reading rarely try again to enjoy
it.
 RISE OF OTHER
ACADEMIC SUBJECTS.
English is a major in decline in
most places partly for reason #1,
and partly because there are a lot
more options for a scholar these
days.
International Relations, Biology, Art,
Poli-Sci, Philosophy, Languages,
Women’s Studies, et al
NO AUTOMATIC
C O NNEC TIO N TO A
JO B AFTER COLLEGE.
The disciplines that have an
automatic field ready-made for
the graduate are few
College, at its core, is NOT JOB-
TRAINING!! Go to college to
learn, a young student, and
become a better person. Money
is only money. If you graduate
and don’t have a job right away,
that’s fine.
You will find one if you
 INACCESSIBILITY.

: If a work of literature is dazzlingly brilliant but

no one can understand it, is it good?
: a balance is too much to ask perhaps.
However, when the artist writes above the
common reader’s ability to comprehend,
readers will be alienated
O VERLY-
AC ADEMIC
LANGUAGE.
Academics have
invented complicated
terminology for
everything.
one must write
intelligently and
engage the concepts
DEATH OF AESTHETICS

Some do not appreciate art.

We are business people. Straight-forward, earn a buck,
get it done, work on the weekends, open 24 hours,
overtime, few holidays, work till you die people. Why
does art of any kind matter? Well, what else aside from
art slows us down? What else shows us beauty,
beauty so amazing and alarming that we have to
appreciate it? From where do we gain insight into
existence?
Art does all these things, and its decline will mean
the decline of literature.
 IS THERE A
SOLUTION TO
ALL THESE
PROBLEMS?
YES, AND IT’S QUITE SIMPLE
LITERATURE ITSELF is the answer.
There are multitudes of brilliant novels,
short stories, and poems out there to be
read, and not all of them are long or
complex. The purpose of the literati is
to make literature clearer, more
profound, and more able to be
grasped.
And lastly, we ought to
make literature fun because
the reason we like to read is
IT’S FUN! It’s enjoyable! If it’s
not these things, one can
just as easily find something
else that is fun.
 REFERENCE
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