GROUP 5

Meet The Group

Spheri Jhon
Lady Jhane
Ronalyn
Roma Jean
 LESSON 5:
Introduction
to Popular
Literature
 Objectives:

At the end of the lesson, the students should be

able to:

a. Acquaint themselves with the nature, appeal, and

social functions of popular literature.
UNDERSTANDING THE NATURE,
FUNCTION, AND VALUE OF
LITERATURE
HOW DR. ELLIS DESCRIBES 'LITERATURE'

Dr. Rod Ellis - known as the "Father of Second

Language Acquisition" (ASL)

(1989:30) defines literature as:

1. The verbal expression of human imagination and

2. One of the primary means by which a culture
transmits itself.
 1. NATURE
WHAT IS THE NATURE OF LITERATURE?
Literature can be defined as an expression of human
feelings, thoughts, and ideas whose medium is
language, oral and written.

It is not only about human ideas, thoughts, and

feelings but also about experiences of the authors. It
can be medium for human to communicate what
they feel, think, experience to the readers.
 'LITERATURE' BASED ON DIFFERENT
POINT OF VIEWS

1 Literature is art,
2 Literature is expressive, and

Literature is affective.
Literature is language,

Literature is everything in print.

Literature is aesthetic,
It means any writing can be
Literature is fictional, categorized as literature.
 LITERATURE AS ART FORM
1. IMAGINATIVE LITERATURE
Is highly 'connotative' which means words that used
in literary works have feeling and shades of meaning
that words tend to evoke.

Imaginative literature or "literature of power"

includes poems, short stories, novels, and plays. It
interprets human experience by presenting actual
truths about particular events.
 LITERATURE AS ART FORM
2. NON-IMAGINATIVE LITERATURE

Means that the words refer to meaning in dictionary.

Non-Fictional Literature or "literature of knowledge"

includes biographies, and essays which presents
actual facts, events, experiences and ideas.
 TWO CATEGORIES OF LITERATURE
ACCORDING TO KLEDEN

Kleden states that literature can be differentiate based on

the kind of meanings that exist in a text.

a) LITERARY TEXT consists of textual meaning and

referential meaning and
b) NON-LITERARY TEXT only consists of referential meaning.
The TEXTUAL MEANING is the meaning that is produced by
the relationship of text itself.

REFERENTIAL MEANING it is produced by the relationship

between internal text and
external text (world beyond the text).
.
 LITERATURE DIFFER FROM ORDIANRY
SPOKEN OR WRITTEN LANGUAGE

□ Literature uses special words, structures, and

characteristics. Primarily the language of
literature differs from ordinary language in three ways:
1.) Language is concentrated and meaningful.
2.) Its purpose is not simply to explain, argue, or make a
point but rather to give a sense of
pleasure in the discovery of new experience, and 69
3.) It demands intense concentration from the readers. It
indicates that the language of literature has originality,
quality, creativity, and pleasure.
 II. APPEAL

 Something that makes the viewers or readers attracted

and interested in the literary
piece.
 III. SOCIAL FUNCTION

FUNCTION OF LITERATURE
ENTERTAINMENT FUNCTION
SOCIAL AND POLITICAL FUNCTION
IDEOLOGICAL FUNCTION
MORAL FUNCTION
LINGUISTIC FUNCTION
CULTURAL FUNCTION
EDUCATIONAL FUNCTION
HISTORICAL FUNCTION
 LITERARY CRITICISM AND ITS
PURPOSE
□ Literary criticism refers to analysis and judgment of works of
literature.
□ It tries to interpret specific works of literature, and also helps to
identify and understand
Different ways of examining and interpreting them.
□ Study of literary criticism contributes to maintenance of high
standards of literature.
□ It is the study, evaluation, and interpretation of literature.
□ Modern literary criticism is often influenced by literary theory, which
is the Philosophical discussion of literature’s goals and methods.
 FUNCTIONS OF LITERARY CRITICISM

□ The modern understanding of criticism is regarded as having two

different functions 72 Which helps to achieve the main purposes of
criticism.
□ Criticism is the process of analysis and description and
interpretation of literary works
For the purpose of increasing understanding and raising
appreciation.
TYPES OF LITERARY CRITICISM

1.Archetypal Criticism
2.Cultural Criticism
3.Feminist Criticism
4.Psychoanalytic Criticism
5.Marxist Criticism
6.New Criticism (Formalist/Structuralism)
7.New Historicism5
8.Post-Structuralism, and
9.Reader-response Criticism
 LESSON 6:
POPULAR
LITERATURE
GENRES
 Objectives:

At the end of the lesson, the students should be able to:

a. Describe the characteristics of popular literature; and

b. Differentiate popular from contemporary literature
genres.
POPULAR LITERATURE GENRES:

Objectives:

1. Romance
2. Science Fiction
3. Detective Story
4. Comic Books
5. Comic Strip
 I. ROMANCE

What is Romance?

·Romance is a narrative genre in literature that involves a

mysterious, adventurous, or spiritual story or spiritual
story line where the focus is on a quest that involves
bravery and strong values, not always a love interest.
Romance
 Types of Romance:
1 a. Gothic 2 a. Historical Romance
In Gothic romance, the settings are
Historical romance takes place in
times
usually in distant regions and the stories long past and appears romantic due to
the
features dark and compelling adventure and wildness of the
time. This
characters. also provides value and meaning to
the
lifestyle of the characters.
Example:
The Scarlette Letter ( By: Nathaniel Example:
The Last of the Mohicans ( by:
James
Hawhorne)
Fenimore Cooper)
 Types of Romance:
3 a. Contemporary Modern

Contemporary romance focuses on a love relationship and has happy

ending. There two ways these romance novels are written: as a series of
category romance (the author writes a succession of books that fit a
theme or follow a storyline) or as a single-title romance.

Examples:
·Comedy-romance
·Tragic-romance
·Satire-romance
·Serious romance
 II. Science Fiction
What is Science Fiction?

Science fiction, often called “sci-fi,” is a genre of fiction

literature whose content is imaginative, but based in
science. It relies heavily on scientific facts, and principles
as support for its settings, characters, themes, and
plot-lines, which is what makes it different from fantasy.
Science Fiction
 Types of Science
Fiction
1. Hard Science Fiction
Hard science fiction strictly follows scientific facts and
principles. It is strongly focused on natural science like
physics, astronomy, chemistry, astrophysics, etc.

2. Soft Science Fiction

Soft science fiction is characterized by a focus on social
sciences , like anthropology, sociology, psychology and
politics, in other words, science involving human behavior .
 Importance of Science
Fiction
·Suggest who could really happen in the
future.
·To explore what could happen if certain
events of circumstances came to be or:
·Suggest consequences of technological and
scientific advancements and innovation.
 III. Detective Story

Detective Story, type of popular

literature in which crime is introduced
and investigated and culprit is
revealed.
Detective Story
The traditional elements of the
detective story are:
1. The seemingly perfect crime
2. The wrongly accused suspect at whom circumstantial
evidence points;
3. The bangling of dim-witted police;
4. The greater powers of observation and superior mind of
the detective;
5. The startling and unexpected denouement, in which the
detective reveals how the identity of the culprit was
ascertained.
 IV. COMIC BOOK

- A magazine that presents a serialized in the form of

a comic strip, typically featuring the adventures of a
superhero.
- A comic is bound collection of comic strips, usually
in chronological sequence, typically telling a single
story or series of different stories.
Comic Book
 COMIC BOOK

Benefits of a Comic Books:

- Reading
- Writing
Key benefits of using comics in
education:
- a great visual representation of knowledge
- present what is essential
- easier to remember a visual graphic containing
key information
- engaging through thinking, creating and writing
- perfect avenue for writing dialogue
- incite students with low interest in writing
 - helps organization through storytelling and
storyboarding
- using visual images convey meaning to a story or
topic
- develops creative and higher-level thoughts
processes
- enriches reading, writing, and thinking
- serve as and assessment and evaluation tool
- sequencing promotes understanding
 V. Comic Strip/ Story Board

A sequence of drawings, either in color black and white,

relating in comic incident , an adventure or mystery
story, etc. often serialized, typically having dialogue
printed in balloons, and usually printed as horizon strips
in daily newspaper and in an uninterrupted block or
longer sequence of such strips in Sunday newspaper and
in comic books.
Comic Strip/ Story Board
 Uses of Comic strip in class
- Digital story telling
- Students use comic strips to visually retell a story
they have read.
- You can use comic strip to introduce a topic and
have students brainstorm ideas.
- Provide students with pre-designed comic strip with
missing panels and ask them to fill in the blank to
complete the story.
- Provide students with a blanked out comic strip and
ask them to write a story based on the illustrated
characters.
- Use comic strips to raise students awareness to topic
such as racism, bullying, digital citizenship
- Use comic strips in language learning to teach
vocabulary, grammar, communication, writing and
reading.
- Use comics to improve students speaking skills by
asking them to act out comics they created
 Thank
you for
listening!