Literary Genres

Literary
Genres of the
21st Century
Discussant: Junilyn S. Zozobrado
OBJECTIVES
02 04
01 Identify the
03 compose a
different forms text-tula.
Compare and contrast 21st
of 21st Century compare and
Century literary genres
and the ones from the literary contrast major
earlier genres/periods genres; literary genres
citing their elements, with those of the
structures and traditions. 21st Century;
and
Literature in the
21st Century per
se, is anything that
was written and
published in the year
2000s.
It is possible, however, to
approach contemporary
literature as a reaction to and
dialogue with existing forms
of expressive culture. As we engage in technology
more and more, we create
and discover more
existing forms of
expressive culture as well.
1. Creative
Nonfiction
can be an essay, a journal
article, a research paper, a
memoir, or a poem; it can
be personal or not.
1. Creative
Nonfiction
Hypertext Poetry
is a new genre of 2
literature that uses the rely on the qualities
computer screen as unique to a digital
medium, rather than environment, such as
linked World Wide
the printed page. Web pages or effects
such as sound and
movement.
Hypertext Poetry
2
3 Mobile Phone Text-
Tula
A literary work originally written
on a cellular phone via text
messaging.
Chapters usually consist of about 70-

100 words each due to character
limitations on cellphones.
3 Mobile Phone Text-
Tula
4 Chick Lit
It consists of heroine-centered narratives
that focus on the trials and tribulations of their
individual protagonists.
It often addresses issues of modern

womanhood from romantic relationships to female
friendships to matters in the workplace- in humorous
and lighthearted ways.
4 Chick Lit
Speculative Fiction
story that deals with observations of the 5
human condition but offers the
experience through a different lens.
It often challenges us to see what

tomorrow could be like or what the mythic
past of our imagination actually is
Speculative Fiction
5
Flash Fiction
goes by many names
6
including microfiction, features can
microstories, short- help provide clarity,
shorts,sudden fiction, like its brevity,
postcard fiction and length,
nanofiction. background and
purpose
Flash Fiction
6
7 Blog It is a platform
where a writer or
is an online journal or
even a group of
informational website
displaying information in writers share
the reverse chronological their views on an
order, with latest posts individual subject.
appearing first.
7 Blog
8 Graphic Novels
is a narrative work in which the story is convey
to the reader using comic form.
The term is employed in a broad manner,

encompassing non-fiction works
and thematically linked short stories
as well as fictional stories across a
number of genres.
8 Graphic Novels
Digi-Fiction
a literary experience that
9
combines three media:
book, movie/video, and
internet website.
In order to get the full story, students must engage in
navigation, reading, viewing in all three formats.
Digi-Fiction
9
10 Manga
This is a Japanese word for comics.
It is used in the English-speaking world as a
generic term for all comic books and graphic
novels originally published in Japan
Manga is considered an artistic and storytelling
style. The term “Ameri-Manga” is sometimes used to
refer to comics created by American artists in a
manga style
10 Manga
11 Doodle Fiction
Drawings enhance
A literary presentation the story, often
where the author adding humorous
incorporates doodle elements that
drawings and hand would be missing if
written graphics in place the illustrations
of traditional font. were omitted.
11 Doodle Fiction
Guide
Questions:
Which among the 21st Century Literary
Genres are you familiar with?
Why do you think it is important to lean
about the different 21st Century literary
genres?
Groupie!
Directions: Bearing in mind the
contemporary Philippine literature
landscape, compare the following
21st Century literary genres with the
major literary genres by completing
the following table.
Groupie!
Literary Genre Description Purpose
Poetry
Fiction
Nonfiction
Drama/Play
Creative Nonfiction

Hypertext
Mobile Phone Text-Tula
Chick Lit
Groupie!
Literary Genre Description Purpose
Speculative Fiction

Flash Fiction

Blog

Graphic Novel

Digi-Fiction

Manga

Doodle Fiction

Short Quiz!
Directions: Read carefully
each question below and
answer it critically.
Short Quiz!
1. Which 21st-century literary 2. Which 21st-century literary
genre is usually written on a genre incorporates doodle
mobile phone via text drawings and handwritten
messaging? graphics in place of traditional
A. Text-Tula font?
B. Hyper Poetry A. Text-Tula
C. Flash Fiction B. Flash Fiction
D. Creative Nonfiction C. Doodle Fiction
D. Digi-Fiction
Short Quiz!
genres consist of heroine- genre is a type of a story that
centered narratives that deals with observations of the
focus on the trials and human condition but offers the
tribulations of their individual experience
protagonists? through a different lens?
A. Speculative Fiction A. Speculative Fiction
B. Chick Lit B. Chick List
C. Blog C. Blog
D. Flash Fiction D. Flash Fiction
Short Quiz!
genre goes by many names genre is an online journal or
like microstories, microfiction, informational website where a
sudden fiction and nonfiction writer or a group of writers
A. Speculative Fiction share their views on an
B. Chick List individual subject?
C. Blog A. Speculative Fiction
D. Flash Fiction B. Chick List
C. Blog
D. Flash Fiction
Short Quiz!
genre is a generic term for all genre is a narrative work in
comic books and graphic which the story is conveyed to
novels originally published in the reader using a comic
Japan? form?
A. Digi-Fiction A. Digi-Fiction
B. Graphic Novels B. Graphic Novels
C. Manga C. Manga
D. Creative nonfiction D. Creative nonfiction
Short Quiz!
genre can be an essay, a genre is a literary experience
journal article, a research that combines three media:
paper, a memoir, or a poem? book, movie/video, and the
A. Digi-Fiction internet?
B. Graphic Novels A. Digi-Fiction
C. Manga B. Graphic Novels
D. Creative nonfiction C. Manga
D. Creative nonfiction
Assignment!
Directions: Research the
different types of speculative
fiction.
Thank YOU for
Listening!

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Chapters usually consist of about 70-

It often addresses issues of modern

It often challenges us to see what

The term is employed in a broad manner,

Mobile Phone Text-Tula

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