Serious Popular Fiction by Anuradha Marwah For years in the West people made a distinction between high and low art: serious literary fiction and popular novels. Serious used to be worthy or ‘great’ literature, usually realistic and message driven, prescribed to the impressionable for the elevation of their souls; whereas the popular was allied with [...]
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