WORLD

LITERATURE
“It is the story of us as a species”
Opening
Prayer
Learning Objectives:
• define World Literature

• familiarize different 21st century authors from the

different countries

• identify representative texts and authors from

Asia, North America, Europe, Latin America, and
Africa

• explain the texts in terms of literary elements,

genres, and traditions
What is World Literature?

It refers to the vast “The Best” of what

literary production the world’s
across the world. literature can offer
What is World Literature?
The phrase comes from the
German scholar and poet
Johann Wolfgang von
Goethe’s phrase
Weltliteratur.
 1. Economic Globalization

Factors consider about the resurgence of

interest in world literature.

2. Digital Revolution
What is 21st Century World Literature?

One thing that is constant if we are to survey the literature of the

world across the premodern age to the 21st century is that humanity
has an unquenchable thirst for self –expression that has led them to
immortalize the human experience through a rich variety of literary
production. World literature is the story of us as a species.
Junot Díaz
- a Dominican-American writer, creative
writing professor at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, and fiction editor at
Boston 
Haruki Murakami
- is a Japanese novelist and translator.
An important asset to the Japanese
literature of the 20th century, Haruki has
received several noted awards for his
fiction and non-fiction works. He was also
referred to as one of the world’s greatest
living novelists.

After The Quake by

Haruki Murakami
Becky Albertalli
- Young adult/contemporary novelist who is
recognized for having authored Simon vs.
the Homo Sapiens Agenda and The Upside
of Unrequited. Her work has garnered her a
nomination for the Goodreads Choice Award
for Best Young Adult Fiction.

Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

by Becky Albertalli
Pittacus Lore
 (the pseudonym of James
Frey and Jobie Hughes)

Lorien Legacies is a series of young adult

science fiction books, written by James
Frey, Jobie Hughes, and formerly, Greg Boose,
under the collective pseudonym Pittacus Lore.

I AM NUMBER 4 BY PITTACUS LORE

 The Nobel Prize in Literature 2017 was
awarded to Kazuo Ishiguro "who, in
novels of great emotional force, has
uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory
sense of connection with the world."

Never Let Me Go BY Kazuo Ishiguro

Neil Gaiman
- was born in Hampshire, UK, in
1960 and since 1992 has lived in the
United States, currently residing near
Minneapolis.

Coraline by Neil Gaiman –

Newbery Medal Winner
PLOT DIAGRAM:
FREYTAG’S
PYRAMID
GUSTAV FREYTAG
- A GERMAN NOVELIST
- CREATED A DIAGRAM, TO SHOW
THE FORM OF BASIC PLOT
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EXPOSITION
- PART OF NARRATIVE
STRUCTURE
- THE SCENE IS SET
- CHARACTERS INTRODUCED
- SITUATION ESTABLISHED
RISING ACTION
- EVENTS COMPLICATE OR
INTENSIFY THE CONFLICT
- INTRODUCE ADDITIONAL
CONFLICT

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 CLIMAX
- TURNING POINT IN
FICTION
- TRANSITION FROM
RISING TO FALLING
ACTION

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FALLING ACTION
- PROBLEMS ENCOUNTERED
DURING THE RISING ACTION
ARE SOLVED

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DENOUEMENT
- RESOLUTION OR CONCLUSION