Articulated the lower-class point of view.
Moreover, while public speakers, comedians, and tragedians belonged to the city’s upper class, they had to win over audiences of lower-class citizens and so had to tailor their works to the latter’s point of view. Consequently we can call their speeches and plays popular literature, and the lower-class point of view which they articulated popular culture.
—-> so their speeches and plays are popular literature? And they articulated the lower-class point of view as a popular culture?
Help me understand this sentence pls!
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There are two aspects to the works under consideration. They can be seen as literature, and they can be taken as a whole to be an element of a culture. Popular culture is what we now call pop culture, the things that the mass of people in a society consume and do.
- There are two aspects to the works under consideration.
- They can be seen as literature, and they can be taken as a whole to be an element of a culture.
- Popular culture is what we now call pop culture, the things that the mass of people in a society consume and do.
- These artists articulated the lower-class point of view, they gave it expression, and this allowed their work to become part of popular culture.
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There are two aspects to the works under consideration. They can be seen as literature, and they can be taken as a whole to be an element of a culture. Popular culture is what we now call pop culture, the things that the mass of people in a society consume and do. These artists articulated the lower-class point of view, they gave it expression, and this allowed their work to become part of pop
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"we can call" is implied again after the comma. Thus it means:
i) we can give the name "popular literature" to their speeches and plays
ii) we can give the name "popular culture" to the lower
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