Conventional and 21st Century Genre

Poetry

Is an imaginative awareness of experience expressed through meaning, sound and rhythmic language choices to evoke an emotional response. It has been known to employ meter and rhyme.

Drama

A composition in prose or verse presenting in dialogue or pantomime a story involving conflict more contrast of character, especially intended to be acted on a stage: a play.

Fiction

Created from the imagination, not presented as fact, though it may be based on a true story or situation. Types of literature in the fiction include the novel, short story and novella

Non-Fiction

Based on facts and the author’s opinion about a subject. The purpose of non-fiction writing is to inform and sometimes to persuade. Its examples are biographies, articles from textbooks and magazines and newspapers.

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

Illustrated Novel

Digi-Fiction

• Triple Media Literature

•Combines three media: Book, movie/Video and Internet websites to get the full story, students must engage in navigation, reading, and viewing in all three forms

Digi-Fiction

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 genre.

Graphic Novel

Manga

• Japanese work for comics

• Its is used in the English-speaking world as a genetic term for all comic books and graphic novels originally published in Japan.

• Considered as an artist and storytelling style.

Ameri-manga

Refer to comics created by American artist in manga style.

Shonen

Boy’s Manga (NARUTO, BLEACH, ONE PIECE

Shojo

Girls Manga (SAILORMOON)

Seinen

Men’s Manga (AKIRA)

Josei

Women’s Manga (LOVELESS, PARADISE KISS)

Kodomo

Children’s Manga (DORAEMON, HELLO KITTY)

Manga

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.

Doodle Fiction

Text-Talk Novel

•Blogs, email and IM format narratives

•Stories told almost entirely in dialogue simulating social network exchanges.

Text-Talk Novel

Chick Lit

• 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.

Chick Literature

What is the other word for Chick Lit?

Chick Lit

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 Non-Fiction

• 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 Non-Fiction

Science Fiction

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.

What

Literature of Ideas

What do you call science fiction

Science Fiction

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.

Blog

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.

Hyper Poetry