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Example sentences for "popular literature"

  • The first essential value of the detective story lies in this, that it is the earliest and only form of popular literature in which is expressed some sense of the poetry of modern life.

  • It is this fact which constitutes a profound and almost unfathomable interest in this particular branch of popular literature.

  • Here, again, we find, as we so often do, that whatever view of this matter of popular literature we can trust, we can trust least of all the comment and censure current among the vulgar educated.

  • It is, therefore, high time that some stand should be made, some protest entered against writings which cannot fail to corrupt popular taste and to degrade the standard of popular literature.

  • If popular Literature aspires to be ambitious, and trespasses on the domains of scholarship and criticism, let them submit it to the tests which it invites, let them try it by the standards which it exacts.

  • The production of popular literature is now a trade, and in some cases this kind of puffery is the work of deliberate fraud, originating from various motives.

  • This survey of popular literature forms a necessary introduction to the renascence which was simultaneously effected for Italian at Florence, Ferrara and Naples during the last years of the century.

  • While dealing with the Novelle and the semi-popular literature of this transition period, I have hitherto neglected those numerous minor poets who continued the traditions of the earlier trecento.

  • Alberti's misogynistic essays remind us how very difficult it is to understand or explain the tone of popular literature in that century with regard to women.

  • Whilst foreign countries have given up their stores of popular literature to these investigations, similar industry has been shown in collecting the traditions and folk-lore of our own country.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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