21 Century Literary

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Genres
 LEARNING TARGETS
• Differentiate the 21st century
literary genres, and the one’s from
the original genres;
• Enumerate the elements,
structures, and traditions of each
genre; and
• Appreciate the unique features of
each genre.
 It refers to new literary work
created within the last decade.

21 Century
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Literary Genres
 ILLUSTRATED NOVEL
• It is an extended narrative that
focuses on stories through text and
illustrated images.
• 50 % of the story is presented using
pictures instead of words.
• The reader needs to interpret the
images to understand the plot of the
story.
 ILLUSTRATED NOVEL
• Textual portions are presented in
traditional form.
• Some illustrated novels may contain
no text at all.
• It explores all genres.
• Examples include The Invention of
Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick and
The Arrival by Shaun Tan.
With 284 pages of original drawings
and combining elements of picture
book, graphic novel, and film, Brian
Selznick breaks open the novel form
to create an entirely new reading
experience. Here is a stunning
cinematic tour de force from a
boldly innovative storyteller and
artist.
 DIGI-FICTION
• It came from the words digital and
fiction.
• It is also known as three media
literature including a book,
movie/video and internet website.
• The reader has to engage in
navigation, reading, and viewing in
all three forms.
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GRAPHIC NOVEL
• Narrative in comic
book formats
• Narrative work in
which the story is
conveyed to the
reader using a
comic form.
 GRAPHIC NOVEL
• The term is employed in broadly
manner, encompassing non-fiction
works and thematically linked short
stories as well as fictional stories
across a number of genres.
• Archie Comics by John Goldwater
and illustrator, Bob Montana, is a
good example.
 MANGA
• It’s the Japanese word for comics
and is used as a generic term for all
books and graphic novels that were
published in Japan.
• It is considered as an artistic
storytelling style.
 MANGA
• It has different genres such as:
o shonen – boy’s manga
o shojo – girls’ manga
o seinen – men’s manga
o josei – women’s manga
o kodomo – children’s manga
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Shonen Manga
 Shojo Manga

Sailor Moon Kaichou wa Maid-sama

Seinen Manga
Josei Manga
Kodomo
 DOODLE FICTION
• Literary presentation where the author
incorporates doodle writing, drawings
and handwritten graphics in place of
the traditional font.
• Drawing enhances the story, often
adding humorous elements
• Examples include The Diary of a
Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney and Timmy
Failure by Stephan Pastis.
 TEXT-TALK NOVELS
• Blogs, email and IM format
narratives
• Stories told almost entirely in
dialogue simulating social network
exchanges.
 CHICK LIT or CHICK
LITERATURE

• Is genre fiction which addresses

issues of modern womanhood, often
humorously and lightheartedly.

• Chick Lit typically features a female

protagonist whose femininity is
heavily thermalizing in the plot.
 CHICK LIT or CHICK
LITERATURE

• Scarlet Bailey’s The night before

Christmas and Miranda Dickinson’s It
started with a Kiss are examples of
this.
It's all about the ghosts of boyfriends past, present
and future for Lydia, the heroine of Scarlett
Bailey's debut novel The Night Before Christmas.
The summary says: "All Lydia's ever wanted is a
perfect Christmas... So when her oldest friends
invite her to spend the holidays with them, it
seems like the answer to her dreams. She's been
promised log fires, roasted chestnuts, her own
weight in mince pies; all in a setting that looks
like something out of a Christmas card. However,
her winter wonderland is about to be ruined by
the ghosts of boyfriends past, present and
potential future. She's snowed in with her current
boyfriend, her old flame and a hunky stranger.
Well, three (wise) men are traditional at this time
of year..." The Night Before Christmas is out in
October.
Romily Parker is a woman on a mission.
On the last Saturday before Christmas,
(shortly after disastrously declaring her
undying love for her best friend, Charlie)
Romily has a sudden, brief encounter
with a gorgeous stranger who might,
just possibly, be the man of her dreams.
It only takes two small words – ‘Hello,
beautiful’ – and one, heart-stopping kiss
to make up her mind: she has to find
him again.
 FLASH FICTION
• Is a style of fictional literature of
extreme brevity
• There is no widely accepted
definition of the length and category.
It could range from word to a
thousand.
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 SIX-WORD FLASH FICTION
• Ernest Hemingway: For sale: baby
socks, never worn.

• Margaret Atwood: Longed for him.

Got him, Shit.
 CREATIVE NON-
FICTION
• Also known as literary non-fiction or
narrative non-fiction
• A genre of writing that uses literary
styles and techniques to create factually
accurate narratives.
• Contrasts with other non-fiction, such as
technical writing or journalism, which is
also rooted in accurate fact, but is not
primarily written in service to its craft.
 CREATIVE NON-
FICTION
• As a genre, creative non-fiction is still
relatively young and is only
beginning to be scrutinized with the
same critical analysis given to fiction
and poetry.
• 1000 Gifts by Ann Voscamp and
Wind, Sand, and Stars by Antoine de
Saint-Exupery are examples.
 SCIENCE FICTION
• Is a genre of speculative fiction
dealing with imaginative concepts
such as futuristic science and
technology, space travel, time travel,
faster than light travel, a parallel
universe and extra-terrestrial life.
 SCIENCE FICTION
• Often explores the potential
consequences of scientific and other
innovations and has been called a
“literature of ideas”.
• Examples include Suzanne Collins’
Mockingjay and Sarah Maas’
Kingdom of Ash.
 BLOG
• A weblog, a website containing short
articles called posts that are changed
regularly.
• Some blogs are written by one
person containing his or her own
opinions, interests and experiences,
while others are written by different
people.
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 HYPER POETRY
• Digital poetry that uses links and
hypertext mark-up
• It can either involved set words,
phrases, lines, etc. that are
presented in variable order but sit on
the page much as traditional poetry
does, or it can contain parts of the
poem that move and transform.
 HYPER POETRY
• It is usually found online, through
CD-ROM and diskette versions exist.
The earliest examples date to no
later than the mid-1980’s.
 REFERENCES
• Cadacio, R.L. & Caturay, F.A. (2020).
21st Century Literature from the
Philippines and the World Quarter 1-
Module 2: Conventional and 21st
Century Genres. Rizal: Department of
Education-Region IV-A CALABARZON