The article presents changes in attitude towards popular literature and culture in last thirty years, in which despised Cinderella became the almighty queen of the book market, and dichotomy in studying works of “high” and “low” culture gradually disappears, what may be seen also in the role of “mixed” genres. Analyzing methods of working on such works and reminding overviews of research on such works included in her book The Third One, the author critically emphasizes the impact of English-language researches on the present shape of Polish researches on popular phenomena. She also calls for taking up literature that lies between “high” and “low” culture.
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