在文学史中占据主导地位的一直都是通常意义上的经典文学,具有强烈的精英主义色彩,但文学史上始终存在另一种文学,那就是80年代复兴的大众文学。本文从大众文学的涵义、产生传播以及其社会功效等方面来论述了大众文学作为当代文学格局中不可或缺的一份子的原因与意义,从而阐释了大众文学在当代文学格局中的重要地位。 In the history of literature has always dominated the classic literature in the usual sense, with a strong elitist color, but there is always another literature in the history of literature, that is, the revival of popular literature in the 1980s. This paper expounds the reasons and significance of popular literature as an indispensable part in the contemporary literature from the aspects of the meaning of mass literature, the production and dissemination and its social effect, and thus explains the important position of popular literature in contemporary literature.