21st Century Lit Genres

Conventional and 21st
Century Genres
MARY KAY D. MENOR

Teacher II
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.
21st Century Literature
21st Century Literature refers to new literary work

created within the last decade. It is written by
contemporary authors which may deal with current
themes/ issues and reflects a technological
culture. It often breaks traditional writing rules.
21st Century Reader
A 21st Century Reader grew up using technology as a
primary learning tool.
He is capable of navigating and interpreting digital formats and
media messages.
He also possesses literacy skills, which include technological
abilities such as keyboarding, internet navigation, interpretation
of technological speak, ability to communicate and interpret
coded language and decipher graphics.
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.
• Textual portions are presented in traditional form.
• Some illustrated novels may contain no text at all.
• Span all genres.
• Examples include The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick and
The Arrival by Shaun Tan.
ILLUSTRATED NOVEL
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, and viewing in all three forms.
• Patrick Carman’s Skeleton Creek and Anthony Zuiker’s Level
26 are examples.
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 in broadly manner, encompassing non-fiction
works and thematically linked short stories as well as fictional stories
across a number of genres.
• Archie Comics by John Goldwater and illustrator, Bob Montana, is a
good example.
MANGA
• 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.
• Considered as an artistic and storytelling style.
• Ameri-manga- sometimes used to refer to comics created by
American artists in manga style.
MANGA
• Shonen- Boy’s Manga (Naruto, Bleach, One Piece)

• Shojo- Girl’s Manga (Sailormoon)
• Seinen- Men’s Manga (Akira)
• Josei- Women’s Manga (Loveless, Paradise Kiss)
• Kodomo- Children’s Manga (Doraemon, Hello Kitty)
DOODLE FICTION
• Literary presentation where the author incorporates doodle
writing, drawings and handwritten graphics in place of the
traditional font.
• Drawing enhances the story, often adding humorous elements
• Examples include The Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney
and Timmy Failure by Stephan Pastis.
TEXT-TALK NOVEL
• 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.
• • Scarlet Bailey’s The night before Christmas and Miranda
Dickinson’s It started with a Kiss are examples of this.
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
• Ernest Hemingway: For sale: baby socks, never worn.

• Margaret Atwood: Longed for him. Got him, Shit.
CREATIVE NONFICTION
• Also known as literary non-fiction or narrative non-fiction

• A genre of writing that uses literary styles and techniques to
create factually accurate narratives.
• 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 NONFICTION
• As a genre, creative non-fiction is still relatively young and is

only beginning to be scrutinized with the same critical analysis
given to fiction and poetry.
• 1000 Gifts by Ann Voscamp and Wind, Sand, and Stars by
Antoine de Saint-Exupery are examples.
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 extra-terrestrial life.
• Often explores the potential consequences of scientific and other
innovations and has been called a “literature of ideas”.
• Examples include Suzanne Collins’ Mockingjay and Sarah Maas’
Kingdom of Ash.
BLOG
• A weblog, a website containing short articles called

posts that are changed regularly.
• • Some blogs are written by one person containing his
or her own opinions, interests and experiences, while
others are written by different people.
HYPER POETRY
• • Digital poetry that uses links and 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 transform.
• • 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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Conventional and 21st

MARY KAY D. MENOR

• 1. differentiate the 21st century literary genres, and the

21st Century Literature refers to new literary work

• Story through text and illustrated images

• Triple Media Literature

• Narrative in comic book formats

• Japanese word for comics

• Shonen- Boy’s Manga (Naruto, Bleach, One Piece)

• Blogs, email and IM format narratives

• Is a style of fictional literature of extreme brevity

• Ernest Hemingway: For sale: baby socks, never worn.

• Also known as literary non-fiction or narrative non-fiction

• As a genre, creative non-fiction is still relatively young and is

• Is a genre of speculative fiction dealing with imaginative concepts such as

• A weblog, a website containing short articles called

• • Digital poetry that uses links and hypertext mark-up

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