21stCentury

Literary
Genres
LITERARY
GENRES
As a 21st century reader,
we deal with current
themes / issues that
breaks the traditional
way of writing.
21 CENTURY LITERARY
ST

GENRES
POETRY
• said to aspire to the conditions of music, hence its rhythmic quality.
• employs figurative and symbolic language that makes it suscptible to
different interpretations.
novels
CHICK LIT
• a genre of fiction which addresses issues of
modern womanhood, often humorously and
lightheartedly
• typically features a female protagonist
whose womanhood is heavily thematized in
the plot.
FLASH FICTION
•a style of fictionl literature or fiction of
extreme brevity. (not more than 50 words)
•there is no widely accepted definition of
the length of the category
•short short story, micro-fiction, micro-
narrative, sudden fiction, smoke-long
story - other terms
SCIENCE FICTION
• a genre of fiction dealing with imaginative content such as futuristic
science and technology, space travel, time travel, faster than light
travel, parallel universe and extraterrestrial life.
GRAPHIC NOVELS / COMIC BOOKS
 Comic Books - refer to any format that uses a combination of frames,
words, pictures to convey meaning and tell a story
 Graphic Novel - when a comic book exceeds 50 pages and is bound in
either soft or hard cover.
fiction
drama
CREATIVE NONFICTION
hyperpoetry
blogs
• shortened version of the term 'web log' coined by John Barger in
1997 and them shortened to the term blog by Peter Merholz in 1999
• regularly updated journal on the internet.
MOBILE PHONE TEXTTULA
• traces its origin to the traditional Tagalog form of poetry called
tanaga, consisting of four lines with 7 syllables each.
• employs communication technology in the sharing of tanaga (tanaga
shared through texting)
SPECULATIVE FICTION
• apocalyptic ficton - deals with the end of civilization either through
nuclear war,plague or some other general disaster
• popst-apocalytic fiction - set in a world or civilization after such a
disaster.
• alternate history - set in worlds in which one or more historical events
unfold differently from how it did in reality.
SPECULATIVE FICTION
• a broad genre that encompasses stories that take place in imaginary
worlds as a result of one or more 'What if...' questions.
• Speculative Fiction - deals mainly with the impact of actual or
imagined science upon society or indivduals
• fantasy - uses magic and supernatural elements in plot, theme and
setting
• utopian fiction - presents a world that is ideally perfect in all aspects
of society.
• dystopian fiction - presents a futuristic, imagined world in which
there is only an illusion of a perfect society but is in fact one which is
oppresed through corporate, bureaucratic, technological, moral or
totalitarian control
• poetry, fiction, drama, creative nonfiction, as well as hyperpoetry,
blogs, mobile phone Texttula, chick lit, speculative fiction, flash fictio