The document discusses several major genres of 21st century literature including graphic novels, manga, digi-fiction, illustrated novels, doodle fiction, text-talk novels, chick literature, flash fiction, six-word flash fiction, creative non-fiction, science fiction, blogs, and hyper poetry. It provides brief definitions and examples of each genre.

2. 21st Century Literature
• refers to the new literary work created within the last
decade.

5. MAJOR LITERARY GENRES
- is an imaginative awareness of
experience expressed through meaning,
sound and rhythmic language choices to
evoke an emotional response.
- is a composition in prose or verse
presenting in dialogue or pantomime a story
involving conflict more contrast of character,
especially on intended to be acted on a stage:
play.

6. - is literature created from the
imagination, not presented as fact,
though it may be based on a true story
or situation
- is based on facts and the
author’s opinion about a subject.

8. Illustrated Novel
• story through text and
illustrated images
• 50% of the narrative is
presented without words
• the reader must interpret the
images to comprehend the
story completely

9. DIGI-FICTION
• Triple Media Literature
• Combines three media: book,
movie/video and internet
website

10. GRAPHIC
NOVEL
• Narrative in comic
book format
• The story is conveyed
to the reader using a
comic form
• Archie Comics by
John Goldwater

11. MANGA
• Japanese word for comics
• Considered as an artistic and
story telling style
• Shonen-Boy’s Manga
(Naruto,Bleach,One Peace)
• Shojo-Girl’s Manga
(Sailormoon)
• Seinen-Men’s Manga (Akira)
• Josei-Women’s Manga
(Paradise Kiss)
• Kodomo-Children’s Manga
(Doraemon/Hello Kitty)

12. DOODLE FICTION
• Literary presentation where
the author incorporates
doodle writing, drawings
and handwritten graphics
in place of the traditional
font.

13. TEXT-TALK
NOVELS
• Blogs, email and IM
format narratives
• Stories told almost
entirely in dialogue
simulating social
network exchanges.

14. CHICK LITERATURE
• It addresses issues of modern
womanhood, often humorously
and lightheartedly
• Typically features a female
protagonist whose feminity is
heavily thermalizing in the plot

15. FLASH
FICTION
• Is a style of
fictional
literature of
extreme
brevity

16. SIX-WORD FLASH
FICTION

17. CREATIVE NON-FICTION
• Also known as literary
non-fiction or narrative
non-fiction
• It uses literary styles
and techniques to
create factually
accurate narratives

18. SCIENCE FICTION
• 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-terrestial life.

19. BLOG
• A weblog, a
website containing
short articles
called posts that
are changed
regularly.

20. HYPER
POETRY
• Digital poetry
that uses links
and hypertext
mark-up