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3 Comparing and Contrasting 21st Various Literary Genres

The document discusses the evolution of various literary genres over time. It begins by explaining how the desire for self-expression led to the creation of literature by authors. It then provides examples of four major classic literary genres: poetry, drama, fiction, and non-fiction. The document concludes by describing several newer genres that have emerged like graphic novels, manga, flash fiction, and blogs, demonstrating how literature continues to reinvent itself as times change.

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3 Comparing and Contrasting 21st Various Literary Genres

The document discusses the evolution of various literary genres over time. It begins by explaining how the desire for self-expression led to the creation of literature by authors. It then provides examples of four major classic literary genres: poetry, drama, fiction, and non-fiction. The document concludes by describing several newer genres that have emerged like graphic novels, manga, flash fiction, and blogs, demonstrating how literature continues to reinvent itself as times change.

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The desire for self-expression

resulted to the production of


literature. It is a writer’s expression
of his mind, heart, emotions,
thoughts, and ideas.
Literature is written works of
famous authors and usually published.
‘Genre’ literally means so
literary genre means types of literary
works.
Can you recall and
differentiate the four
major literary genres?

Well then, let’s play a


game.
P D

F N
F
Poetry
Examples of Poetry
Drama
Examples of Drama
Fiction
Examples of Fiction
Non- Fiction
Examples of Non-Fiction
Literature reinvents itself as it
changes its form to adapt to the
changing times and changing trends;
especially for the young people like
you. The need to express oneself
gave birth to literature and
humanity never got contented on
their attempt to express
themselves resulting to new genres.
➢ Illustrated Novel ➢ Flash Fiction
➢ Digi- Fiction ➢ Six-Word Flash Fiction
➢ Graphic Novel ➢ Creative Non-Fiction
➢ Manga ➢ Science Fiction
➢ Doodle Fiction ➢ Blog
➢ Text- Talk Novels ➢ Hyper Poetry
➢ Chick Lit / Chick Literature
Illustrated Novel

✓Story through text ✓ Textual portions are


and illustrated images presented in
traditional form.

✓50% 0f the narrative ✓Some illustrated novels


is presented without may contain no text at
words all.
✓The reader must interpret ✓Span all genres.
the images to comprehend
the story completely.
DIGI-FICTION

✓Triple Media Literature

✓ Combines three media: book,


movie/video and internet website

✓To get the full story, students must


engage in navigation, reading, viewing in
all three forms.
GRAPHIC NOVEL

✓Narrative in comic book formats

✓Narrative work in which the story is


conveyed to the reader using a comic
form.

✓The term is employed broadly manner, encompassing non-


fiction works and thematically linked short stories as well as
fictional stories across a number of genres.
MANGA

✓Japanese word for ✓ Considered as an artistic


comics and storytelling style.

✓ It is used in the ✓Ameri-manga-


English-speaking world sometimes used to
as a generic term for all refer to comics
comic books and graphic created by American
novels originally artists in manga style.
published in Japan.
SHONEN
BOYS” MANGA
SHOJO
GIRLS” MANGA
Seinen
Men’s Manga
Josei
Women’s Manga
Kodomo
Children’s Manga
DOODLE FICTION
✓Literary presentation where the author
incorporates doodle writing and drawings and
handwritten graphics in place of the
traditional font.

✓ Drawing enhances the story, often adding


humorous elements
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.
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.
SIX-WORD FLASH FICTION

✓Is an entire story told in six words. It is


a short narrative that can have all of the
emotional themes of longer stories—from
funny to dramatic, sad to scary. It can be
poetic or straightforward.
CREATIVE NON-FICTION
✓Also known as literary ✓A genre of writing that uses
non-fiction or narrative literary styles and techniques
to create factually accurate
non-fiction ✓narratives.

✓ Contrasts with other non- ✓As a genre, creative non-


fiction, such as technical fiction is still relatively
writing or journalism, which young and is only beginning
is also rooted in accurate to be scrutinized with the
fact, but is not primarily same critical analysis given
written in service to its to fiction and poetry.
craft.
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
extraterrestrial life.
✓ Often explores the potential consequences of
scientific and other innovations and has been
called a “literature of ideas”.
BLOG

✓A weblog, a website containing short articles


called posts that are changed regularly.

✓ Some blogs are written by one person containing


their own opinions, interests and experiences,
while others are written by different people.
HYPER POETRY
✓Digital poetry that uses links using 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 mutate.

✓ It is usually found online, through CD-ROM and diskette


versions exist. The earliest examples date to no later than
the mid-1980’s.

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