Abstract: Although the study of popular literature in the 20th century undergoes a complete course of start, development, establishment, prosperity, depression, and regrowing, it has not found its own disciplinary position. The main reason is that the study of popular and folk literatures is in an intertwined state of symbiosis and separation. Only when this state is distinguished, can the disciplinary construction of popular literature be advanced.

Key words: folk literature, symbiosis, separation, popular literature