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Literary
Genres
 1. CHICK
LIT_____________
 a type of fiction marketed as a “for women, by women, about
women” genre focusing on the social lives and relationships of young
professional women, and often aimed at readers with similar
experiences.
 It is usually associated with young urban women’s culture: single
women in their 20s and 30s who put great emphasis on their dating
relationships, careers and shopping.
 Taken as a whole, these works offer interrogation of the images of
contemporary women and their concerns in popular culture.
 2. Hyperpoetry______________
 also called cyberpoetry which is basically a traditional work
uploaded
 Hyperpoetry includes verse with links to sub-poems or footnotes,
poetry “generators,” poetry with movement or images. It is usually
highly steeped in the visual and sometimes involves parts that are read
in varying orders.
• Holopoetry refers to 3-dimensional visual art that combines
words with images using holographic techniques. Some readers
relate hyperpoetry to concrete poetry (in which meaning is
conveyed partly by the shape formed by the letters and words),
prose poetry, hip-hop, performance art, and other types of
“hybrid” arts.
 3. BLOG___________________
 a contraction of web log/weblog and is a form of online publishing, communication, and
expression that has gained significant popularity since its emergence in the late 1990s
 Princeton’s WordNet database defines a blog as “a shared online journal where people can post
diary entries about their personal experiences and hobbies, and describes blogging as “reading,
writing, or editing a shared on-line journal”.
 used to share photos, audio clips, and video clips
4. SPECULATIVE FICTION________________
3 historically located meanings:
 a subgenre of science fiction that deals with human rather than technological problem
 a genre distinct from and opposite to science fiction in its exclusive focus on possible futures
 a super category for all genres that deliberately depart from imitating “consensus reality” of
everyday experience.
Like other cultural fields, speculative fiction is a domain of activity that exists not merely through
texts but through their production and reception in multiple contexts.
5. Text Tula__________________
 It originated in Japan, a cell phone novel, or mobile phone
novel is a literary work originally written on a cellular phone
via text messaging.
 Text Tula’s chapters usually consist of about 70-100 words
each due to character limitations on cell phones. Phone
novels started out primarily read and authored by young
women on the subject of romantic fiction such as
relationships, lovers, rape, love triangles, and pregnancy.
 the literature is typically sent directly to the reader via email,
SMS text message, or subscription through an online writing
and sharing website, chapter by chapter
6. FLASH
FICTION___________
 is a mixed genre that consists of one part poetry and one
part narrative. It is also called prose-poetry and needs to
be read slowly like a poem because missing a word can
change the meaning of the story entirely.
 was coined by James Thomas, in 1992, to include stories
of up to 750 words count. Nevertheless, due to the
continuous reconfiguration and mutation of the flash
fiction genre, its word count now ranges from 50 words to
1,000 words or from 75 words to 1,500 words.
 a broad spectrum of forms and styles are covered under
the flash fiction rubric including content that is whimsical,
clever, entertaining, literary, ironic, satirical, sublime,
funny, unconventional
 7.Graphic Novels_____________
 these are books written and illustrated in the style of a comic book
 the story is told using a combination of words and pictures in a sequence across
the page. Graphic novels can be any genre, and tell any kind of story, just like
their prose counterparts
 the format is what makes the story a graphic novel, and usually includes text,
images, word balloons, sound effects, and panels.
 the term “graphic novel” is generally used to describe any book in a comic
format that resembles a novel in length and narrative development.