The phrase "literary mainstream" is correct and usable in written English.
It refers to the most widely accepted and popular forms of literature within a particular genre or context. Example: The author's writing style was unconventional and did not fit into the literary mainstream, but it gained a cult following among readers who appreciated its unique approach.
Children's literature, while a tributary of the literary mainstream, offers its own identifiable, semidetached history.
The ergodic reading experience broke into the literary mainstream with Mark Z Danielski's House of Leaves.
The literary mainstream, the one all novelists dream about, is the Man Booker prize.
Bolaño's fury toward the literary mainstream — deeply felt and bordering on puerile — endured even after his own work became canonical.
By many estimations Mr. Bradbury was the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream.
It just separates what is called the literary mainstream from this other kind of writing.
Authors considered literary or mainstream – such as Jeanette Winterson and Helen Dunmore – have written novels in the genre, a resurgent Hammer studios has brought us a big screen adaptation of Susan Hill's creepy classic The Woman in Black, self-publishing success Amanda Hocking has made the jump to mainstream triumph with her supernatural series.
Cognitive neuroscientist Vittorio Gallese of the University of Parma in Italy, who is also exploring how the brain responds to works of art, finds the new link between real and fictional worlds exciting, but is skeptical of the distinction between literary and mainstream fiction.
It's much more a part of the literary, cultural mainstream than it was ten years ago.
I would say yes, for sure, the contemporary literary landscape the mainstream literary landscape has been flattened out in much the same way the landscape of film has, and for many of the same reasons.
"The era of mainstream literary censorship is over in America.
