Lesson 2. Conventional and 21st Century Literature Flashcards
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 Literature
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.
21st Century Reader
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. The very
nature of poetry as an authentic and individual mode of expression
makes it nearly impossible to define.
Poetry
is a composition in prose or verse presenting in dialogue or
pantomime a story involving conflict more contrast of character,
especially on intended to be acted on a stage: a play. It may be any
situation or series of events having vivid, emotional, conflicting or
striking interest.
Drama
is literature 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.
Fiction
is based on facts and the author’s opinion about a subject.
Its purpose is to inform and sometimes to
persuade. Its examples are biographies, articles from textbooks and
magazines and newspapers.
Non-Fiction
- 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
The Invention of Hugo Cabret and The Arrival
examples of illustrated novel
- 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
DIGI-FICTION
Skeleton Creek and Level 26
examples of digi-fiction
- 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.
Graphic Novel
Archie Comics
examples of graphic novels
- 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.
Manga
sometimes used to refer to comics created by American
artists in manga style.
Ameri-manga
Boy’s Manga (Naruto, Bleach, One Piece)
Shonen
Girl’s Manga (Sailormoon)
Shojo
Men’s Manga (Akira)
Seinen
Women’s Manga (Loveless, Paradise Kiss)
Josei
Children’s Manga (Doraemon, Hello Kitty)
Kodomo
- 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
The Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Timmy Failure
examples of doodle ficton
- Blogs, email and IM format narratives
- Stories told almost entirely in dialogue simulating social network
exchanges.
Text-Talk Novels
- 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 Lit or Chick Literature
The night before Christmas and It started with a Kiss
examples of chick lit
- 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.
Flash Fiction
- For sale: baby socks, never worn.
- Longed for him. Got him, Shit.
examples of six-word flash fiction
who wrote
For sale: baby socks, never worn.
Ernest Hemingway
who wrote
Longed for him. Got him, Shit.
Margaret Atwood
- 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. - 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.
Creative Non-Fiction
1000 Gifts and Wind, Sand, and Stars
examples of creative non-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”.
Science Fiction
Mockingjay and Kingdom of Ash
examples of science fiction
- 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
- 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.
Hyper Poetry
