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Volume : I, Issue : XI, December - 2011

Potential values of fiction genre and its future in literature

Uttam Baliram Sonkamble

Published By : Laxmi Book Publication

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Despite the two distinctive features of fiction; the mainstream fiction and the fiction genre or the popularly known as popular fiction, they have rooted in depth in each of their areas holding a wide and diverse readership. With or without bare comments on the mainstream fiction, the paper deals the latter fiction with its various subgenres and overlapping its other subgenres, origin in brief, significance as well as the world literature. There is a wide range of popular or genre fiction types and subgenres. All the subgenres though different from one another, hail the dominant factor of popular themes carrying major thrust upon amassing large and wider readership ranging from children to the old people.

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Uttam Baliram Sonkamble, (2011). Potential values of fiction genre and its future in literature. Indian Streams Research Journal, Vol. I, Issue. XI, http://oldisrj.lbp.world/UploadedData/572.pdf

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