LESSON 3.
4 12th Grade
21 CENTURY
ST 21st Century
Literature from the
LITERATURE
Philippines and the
World
GENRES
Prepared by: Ms. Arminda M. Barlam
The term illustrated
novel refers to an
extended narrative with
multiple images that,
together with the text,
produce meaning.
FEATURES OF 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
SAMPLES OF ILLUSTRATED NOVEL
The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
SAMPLES OF ILLUSTRATED NOVEL
The Arrival by Shaun Tan
Digital fiction (also known
as electronic literature) is
written for and read from a
computer and uses the
capabilities of the computer
for literary effect.
FEATURES OF 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.
SAMPLES OF DIGI-FICTION
SAMPLES OF DIGI-FICTION
These are literary
novels that are usually
presented in a comic
form.
FEATURES OF GRAPHIC NOVEL
❑ 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.
SAMPLES OF GRAPHIC NOVEL
Manga is an overall
term used for a large
range of graphic
novels and comic
books that has its
origin in Japan.
FEATURES OF 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.
SAMPLES OF MANGA
Shonen- Boy’s Manga (Naruto, Bleach, One Piece)
SAMPLES OF MANGA
Shojo- Girl’s Manga (Sailormoon)
SAMPLES OF MANGA
Seinen- Men’s Manga (Akira)
SAMPLES OF MANGA
Kodomo - Children’s Manga (Doraemon, Hello Kitty)
Literary presentation
where the author
incorporates doodle
writing, drawings and
handwritten graphics
in place of the
traditional font.
FEATURES OF DOODLE FICTION
❑ Drawing enhances the story, often adding
humorous elements.
❑ The graphics were handwritten a place of
traditional font.
❑ More text heavy than Manga and Graphic Novels,
and closer to prose fiction than comics in format.
SAMPLES OF DOODLE FICTION
The Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney
SAMPLES OF DOODLE FICTION
Timmy Failure by Stephan Pastis
A type of fiction in which
the story was told through
dialogues in the social
network. The information
about the whole work is
can be read at the
websites, and exchange by
using chat or any.
FEATURES OF TEXT-TALK NOVEL
❑ Blogs, email and IM format narratives
❑ Stories told almost entirely in dialogue
simulating social network exchanges.
SAMPLES OF TEXT-TALK NOVEL
Vince and Kath
It is genre fiction
which addresses
issues of modern
womanhood, often
humorously and
lightheartedly.
FEATURES OF CHICK LIT
❑ Chick Lit typically features a female protagonist
whose femininity is heavily thermalizing in the plot.
SAMPLES OF CHICK LIT
Scarlet Bailey’s The night Miranda Dickinson’s
before Christmas It started with a Kiss
A flash fiction
story—sometimes
called a short short
or nanofiction—is one
that has a complete
plot in under 1,500
words.
FEATURES OF FLASH FICTION
❑ It 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.
A genre of writing
that uses literary
styles and techniques
to create factually
accurate narratives.
FEATURES OF CREATIVE NONFICTION
❑ 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.
❑ 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.
SAMPLES OF CREATIVE NONFICTION
Scarlet Bailey’s The night before Christmas
SAMPLES OF CREATIVE NONFICTION
1000 Gifts by Ann Voscamp
It 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
FEATURES OF SCIENCE FICTION
❑ Often explores the potential consequences
of scientific and other innovations and has
been called a “literature of ideas”.
SAMPLES OF SCIENCE FICTION
Suzanne Collins’ Mockingjay
SAMPLES OF SCIENCE FICTION
Sarah Maas’ Kingdom of Ash
A weblog, a
website
containing short
articles called
posts that are
changed
regularly.
FEATURES OF BLOG
❑ 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 is poetry
that is available on a
webpage and which
takes advantage of
hyperlinks.
FEATURES OF 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.
