High & Popular Culture In "Innocent Sleep" by Sumon Rahman

2. SumonHossain
Nazmul HosenNayem
MousumiAkterNitu
ToufiqAhmed
DebasishMondal

3. Topic
The blend of High Culture and Popular Culture in
the narrative of “Innocent Sleep”.

4. High Culture
Popular Culture
Narrative
Narrative technique in “Innocent Sleep”
How High and Popular culture is blended in the
narrative of “Innocent Sleep”
Consequences

5. High Culture & Popular Culture in “Innocent
Sleep”: A Blend
 Narrator
 Narrative Technique
 Elite Force
 Stream of Consciousness
 Fragmentation
 Language (Dialect)
 Use of language
 Mass People
 Slang

6. Consequences
The impacts of this mix of High and Popular culture

7. High Culture
 “A high culture is the self-consciousness of a
society" (Roger Scruton)
 High culture is
a) Literature (Sophisticated)
b) Philosophy
c) Elite
d) Cultured
e) Refined
f) “Real” Art

8. High Culture
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
---Robert Frost
The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

9. Popular Culture
a) Mass
b) Entertainment
c) Not refined
d) Not cultured
e) Television
f) Pop music
g) Popular culture is well-liked or widely favored
h) Popular culture emerges from the people

10. Popular Culture

11. Narrative
 A narrative is some kind of retelling, often in
words, of something that happened. Narrative is
not the story itself but rather the telling of the
story -- which is why it is so often used in phrases
such as "written narrative," "oral narrative," etc.

12. Narrative Technique
Unreliable Narrator/Narrative Unreliability
 One of the most powerful tools
 Character who tells a story that cannot be taken at
face value
 Character is insane
 Character who cannot be trusted

13. During Interview with Author