Emergent Literature Literary Standards

- New genres existing nowadays 1. Universality – appeals to everyone regardless of

age, shape, color
2. Artistry – aesthetic, sense of beauty
Popular Literature 3. Intellectual value – promotes critical thinking
4. Suggestiveness – define symbolism
- Writings intended for the masses and those that 5. Spiritual value – elevates spirit and soul
find favor with large audience 6. Permanence – timeliness, timelessness

Contemporary Literature Introduction to Contemporary Literature

- Written works that span the period from a given - Literary manifestations that have taken place
point in history to the present moment since post-modernity
- The Spanish, Enrique Vila-Matas – representative
of contemporary literature
Literature
A. Characteristics
- Any written works that allows us to step back
1. Personal point of view – reflects the social
from the past, understand the world and know
and political views of their authors
what is happening around us, serves as bridge of
connection and communication.
2. Innovative narrative resources – uses
- 1.The verbal expression of human imagination and
avant-garde narrative resources
- 2.One of the primary means by which a culture
transmits itself

3. Magical realism – represents a breakthrough

in 20th century

Role of Literature 4. The pressing issues – related to the current

issues
1. Gives us knowledge
2. Literature helps us to express ourselves
3. Increases our vocabulary
5. Influence of the world war II – influenced
4. Literature help us to learn new facts
by the prosperous lifestyle that followed
5. Literature teaches us about history and culture
world war II
6. Literature makes us critical thinkers
6. Fiction & Non-fiction superimposed
7. Literature reflects what is happening in the
world
8. Literature is enjoyable
Stories

- Known as narrative, it is a connected series of

Functions of Literature events told through words, imagery, body
language and any form of communication.
1. Entertainment
a) Fiction Stories:
2. Social and political – show how society works
o Fable
around them
o Fantasy
3. Ideological – shapes our beliefs
o Romance
4. Moral – imparts moral values to readers
o Science fiction
5. Linguistics – preserves the language of every
o Speculative fiction
civilization
o Suspense
6. Cultural – matter of respect
7. Educational – teaches us human experiences
8. Historical – serves as time capsule
 b) Non-fiction stories:
o Historical events 4. Contemporary literature not confronting issues
o News of general urgency; dominant best sellers are in
o Biographies former niche genres such as fantasies, romances
o Memories and teen books.
o Travel/survival story
o Crime and justice
o War 5. Barriers to publication entry have crashed,
enabling huge torrent of subliterary and/or
nonliterary textual expression

Poetry 6. Algorithms and social media replacing work of

- Contemporary poet often leaves the reader to editors and publishing houses; network socially-
draw his own conclusions and meanings. Mystery generated texts replacing individually-authored
is part of the appeal of contemporary poetry texts

7. "Convergence culture" obliterating former

distinctions between media; books becoming one
Drama
minor aspect of huge tweet/ blog/ comics/
- Contemporary drama is a theatrical show that games / soundtrack/ television / cinema /
revolves around a central current problem. ancillary-merchandise pro-fan franchises.

8. Unstable computer and cellphone interfaces

becoming world's primary means of cultural
Social Issues in Contemporary Literature access. Compositor systems remake media in
their own hybrid creole image.
1. Women in literature
- Provides unique voice of female minorities as a 9. Scholars steeped within the disciplines becoming
common theme. cross-linked jack-of-all-trades virtual
- Often include strong independent females to intelligentsia.
provide examples for young female readers and
to critic the shortcomings of society.

10. Academic education system suffering severe

2. Ethic in Literature bubble-inflation
- Evaporate from the reader’s awareness of black
life similar to from slavery to freedom in their
presumed references to object reality.

3. Racism in Literature
- To make a difference and change society’s
belief.

Popular Literature

Challenges in Contemporary Literature - comes from the word “Populus” which means
people.
1. Literature is language-based and national; - It can be distinguished from artistic literature
contemporary society is globalizing and polyglot. in that it is designed primarily to entertain.
- is fiction that does not deal with abstract
2. Vernacular means of everyday communication " problems;
cellphones, social networks, streaming video " are
moving into areas where printed text cannot
follow

3. Intellectual property systems failing.

GENRE OF POPULAR LITERATURE Issues and Challenges in Popular Literature

1. Romance 1. Post-modernism – literary works are based on

- the focus is on a quest that involves bravery and influenced by the personal feelings, tastes or
strong values, not always a love interest. opinions of authors
- include stories that have a relationship issue as
the main focus. 2. Mass media – there are more to do during free
o Gives us better insights into relationship time than reading
o Inspire hope in life
o Renew our belief in love
a) Gothic Romance 3. Lots of books are bad – people who have had a
b) Historical romance bad experience reading rarely try again to enjoy
c) Contemporary romance it

4. Rise of academic subject

2. Detective Book 5. No automatic connection to a job after college
- a crime is introduced and investigated and the
culprit is revealed. 6. Inaccessibility – literature is dazzlingly brilliant
but no one can understand it, is it good?

3. Science fiction
7. Overly-academic language – academic have
- deals with the impact of imagined innovations in
invented complicated terminology for everything
science or technology.
- Enables us to reflect on the ways people interact
8. Death of aesthetics – people do not appreciate
with each other, with technology, with our
art anymore.
environment.
- To warn people not to misuse technology or
Science.

 Time travel
 Teleportation
 Mind control
 Fictional words
 Space travel

4. Comic book
- presents a serialized story in the form of a
comic strip, typically featuring the adventure of
a superhero.
- combines visual art and written text to convey
narratives.

5. Comic strips
- A sequence of drawings arranged in panels to tell
a story or covey a story.
Emerging literatures

1. Creative non-fiction
- Combines techniques or creative writing with the
factual elements of non-fiction.

2. Hyper poetry - is a form of digital poetry that

uses links using hypertext mark-up.

3. Chick literature – targets a female audience and

often features female protagonist dealing with
personal and romantic challenges.

4. Illustrated novel – combines text with visual

elements.

5. Graphic novel – a book-length work of fiction or

non-fiction that tells a story through a
combination of sequential art and text.

6. Text-talk novels – use the format of text

messages to tell a story, convey emotions and
develop characters.

7. Manga – style of comics that originated in Japan

8. Digi-fiction – created specifically for digital
platforms

9. Doodle fiction – a form of storytelling that

incorporates doodles

10. Flash fiction – microfiction or short-short

stories.

11. Six-word flash fiction – convey an idea in just 6

words
12. Science fiction – involve advanced technology
13. Blog -