Week 1

1. How has the academic reception of popular genres changes over time?
   Popular Genres has been known as the not as serious form of literature and have often been excluded from the authorized literary cannon but as of late many places of learning have added it to their curriculum of study such as MetraNet and Central Queensland University
   
   
   
2. What might the value be of studying them?

Being able to extract why people enjoy them more than high literature is the essence of making literature more accessible, with popular culture being undefined by the conventions of realism we can explore facets that would be otherwise very difficult in high culture.where high culture is bound by the world we live in popular culture exist in imaginary worlds where things could be plausible or outright imaginary.

Referneces

Mountfort, P. (2020). Pop Gen Week 1 Intro [PPT]. Auckland: Auckland University of Technology.