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This article discusses popular culture and popular literature. Culture, which is defined as everything that mankind reveals, is divided into material and spiritual. Over time, both elements of culture cannot remain the same and undergo changes. The transition to machinery in the 18th and 19th centuries, the change in production and consumption, urbanization and other events accelerated the change of culture on the one hand, and on the other hand, caused the diversification. Different cultural understandings arise, such as popular culture, folk genre, subculture and upper culture. Popular culture, whose foundation goes back to the first civilizations, becomes the most common culture after the Industrial Revolution with the great influence of capitalist understanding. It manifests itself in everything the public needs: art, literature, education, sightseeing, clothing, health... One of them, popular literature, became widespread in Europe and America by producing its first products in the late 18th century. Popular literary products addressing predetermined audiences and where making money is the primary goal, are based on simple fiction, easy-to-understand and curiosity. At the center of the study, the results of popular culture and the literature turned into commodities are evaluated with an argumentative point of view.

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