This document discusses 21st century literary genres and compares them to conventional genres. It defines several new genres that have emerged in the digital age, including illustrated novels, digi-fiction, graphic novels, manga, doodle fiction, text-talk novels, chick lit, flash fiction, six-word flash fiction, creative non-fiction, science fiction, blogs, and hyper poetry. These genres often incorporate multimedia elements and break traditional rules through use of images, hyperlinks, and social media-style communication. The document is intended to help readers understand and appreciate the unique features of new literary genres.

1. 21st Century
Literary Genres
Prepared:
Adonis Mhel B. Pasco, LPT
Teacher II
First Semester, SY 2022-2023

2. After going through this lesson,
you are expected to:
1. differentiate the 21st century literary
genres, and the one’s from the
original genres;
2. enumerate the elements, structures
and traditions of each genre;
3. appreciate the unique features of
each genre.

3.  New literary work created within the
recent times
 Written by contemporary authors
which may deal with current
themes/ issues and reflects a
technological culture
 Often breaks traditional writing rules

4.  Grew up using technology as a primary
learning tool
 Capable of navigating and interpreting
digital formats and media messages
 Keyboarding, internet navigation,
interpretation of technological speak,
ability to communicate and interpret
coded language and decipher graphics

5. WORD
PUZZLE
#Throwback
Directions: Look for the conventional
literary genres in the puzzle.

6. F U O Y A D I R F V U L
D I A R M R F I C P S E
R M C T N A C P Y O R Y
A N H T O T Y R T E O P
M F I L I P I D N T O D
I R T O L P A M A R D A
S C N O N F I C T I O N
T A L K A D O N I S W U

7. Conventional Literary Genres
Poetry

8. Conventional Literary Genres
Poetry
Drama

9. Conventional Literary Genres
Poetry
Drama
Fiction

10. Conventional Literary Genres
Poetry
Drama
Fiction
Non-fiction

11. 21st Century
Literary Genres

12. ILLUSTRATED NOVEL

13. ILLUSTRATED NOVEL

14. ILLUSTRATED NOVEL
 Story through text and
illustrated images
 50% or less of the narrative is
presented without words

15. ILLUSTRATED NOVEL
 Must interpret the images to
comprehend the story
completely
 Some illustrated novels may
contain no text at all

16. DIGI-FICTION

17.  Triple Media Literature
 Combines three media: book,
movie/video and internet
 To get the full story, students
must engage in navigation,
reading, viewing in all three forms
DIGI-FICTION

18. GRAPHIC NOVEL

19. GRAPHIC NOVEL
 Narrative in comic book
formats
 Narrative work in which the
story is conveyed to the
reader using a comic form

20. MANGA

21. MANGA

22.  Japanese word for comics
 Generic term for all comic
books and graphic novels
originally published in Japan
MANGA

23.  Considered as an artistic and
storytelling style
 Ameri-manga – sometimes
used to refer to comics
created by American artists
in manga style
MANGA

24. DOODLE FICTION

25. DOODLE FICTION

26. DOODLE FICTION
 Incorporation of doodle
writing and drawings and
handwritten graphics in place
of the traditional font
 Drawing enhances the story,
often adding humorous
elements

27. TEXT-TALK NOVEL

28.  Blogs, email and instant
messaging (IM) format
narratives
 Stories told almost entirely in
dialogue simulating social
network exchanges
TEXT-TALK NOVEL

29. CHICK LIT/CHICK LITERATURE

30. CHICK LIT
 Addresses issues of modern
womanhood, humorously and
lightheartedly
 Typically features a female
protagonist whose femininity
is heavily thermalizing in the
plot

31. FLASH FICTION

32.  Is a style of fictional
literature of extreme brevity
 No widely accepted
definition of the length and
category
 Could range from word to a
thousand
FLASH FICTION

33. SIX-WORD FLASH FICTION

34. SIX-WORD FLASH FICTION
 Fictional literature in six
words
 Ernest Hemingway: For sale:
baby socks, never worn.
 Margaret Atwood: Longed
for him. Got him, Freak*.

35. CREATIVE NON-FICTION

36.  AKA literary non-fiction or
narrative non-fiction
 Uses literary styles and
techniques to present
factually accurate narratives
CREATIVE NON-FICTION

37.  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

38. SCI-FI/SCIENCE FICTION

39. SCIENCE FICTION
 Imaginative concepts such as
futuristic science and
technology, space travel, time
travel, faster than light travel,
a parallel universe and
extraterrestrial life

40. SCIENCE FICTION
 Often explores the potential
consequences of scientific
and other innovations and
has been called a “literature
of ideas”

41. BLOG

42. BLOG

43.  A weblog, a website containing
short articles called posts that
are changed regularly
 May be written by one or
different persons containing their
own opinions, interests and
experiences
BLOG

44. HYPER POETRY

45. HYPER POETRY

46. HYPER POETRY
 Digital poetry that uses links
using hypertext mark-up
 Usually found online, through
CD-ROM and diskette
versions exist
 Earliest examples date to no
later than the mid-1980’s