21st Century vs. Original Literary Genres

• The module aims to differentiate 21st-century literary genres from original ones, enumerate elements, structures, and traditions, and appreciate unique features of each genre.

Poetry

• Expresses imaginative awareness through meaning, sound, and rhythmic language.
• Employs meter and rhyme.
• Its individual expression makes it hard to define.

Drama

• Is a composition in prose or verse presented in dialogue or pantomime.
• It involves conflict or contrast of character.
• Are intended to be acted on a stage, such as a play.
• Involve vivid, emotional, conflicting, or striking events.

Fiction

• Literature created from imagination, not presented as fact, though based on a true story is possible.
• Includes novels, short stories, and novellas.

Non-Fiction

• Based on author's opinion and facts.
• Aims to persuade or inform.
• Examples include biographies, articles from textbooks, magazines, and newspapers.

Illustrated Novel

• Tell stories through text and illustrated images.
• Fifty percent of the narrative is presented without words.
• Readers interpret images to comprehend the story,
• Textual portions are in traditional form, but some novels contain no text.
• Spans all genres.
• The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick, and The Arrival by Shaun Tan are examples.

Digi-Fiction

• Falls under triple media literature
• Combines books, movies/videos, and internet websites.
• Full story requires engagement in navigation, reading, and viewing in all three forms.
• Skeleton Creek by Patrick Carman and Level 26 by Anthony Zuiker are examples.

Manga

• A Japanese word for comics used in the English-speaking world for comic books and graphic novels originally published in Japan.
• Is an artistic and storytelling style.
• Ameri-manga refers to comics created by American artists in manga style.
• Shonen is boy's manga, like Naruto, Bleach, and One Piece.
• Shojo is girl's manga, like Sailormoon.
• Seinen is men's manga, such as Akira.
• Josei is women's manga, such as Loveless and Paradise Kiss.
• Kodomo is children's manga, such as Doraemon and Hello Kitty.

Doodle Fiction

• Literary presentations where the author incorporates doodle writing, drawings and handwritten graphics in place of the traditional font.
• Drawing enhances the story, often adding humorous elements.
• The Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney and Timmy Failure by Stephan Pastis are examples.

Text-Talk Novel

• Blogs, email, and IM form the narratives.
• Stories are almost entirely told in dialogue to simulate social network exchanges.

Chick Lit or Chick Literature

• Is a genre fiction that addresses issues of modern womanhood in a humorous, lighthearted way.
• Features a female protagonist whose femininity heavily thematizes the plot.
• The Night Before Christmas by Scarlet Bailey and It Started with a Kiss by Miranda Dickinson are examples.

Flash Fiction

• Fictional literature of extreme brevity, ranging from a word to a thousand, with no widely accepted definition.

Six-Word Flash Fiction

• "For sale: baby socks, never worn." by Ernest Hemingway
• "Longed for him. Got him, Shit." by Margaret Atwood.

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 because its not written in service to its craft.
• Creative non-fiction is relatively young and 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

• Speculative fiction dealing with imaginative concepts.
• Includes futuristic science and technology, space travel, time travel, faster than light travel, a parallel universe, and extra-terrestrial life.
• Explores the potential consequences of scientific and other innovations, 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 are written by one person with their own opinions, interests and experiences, while others are written by different people.

Hyper Poetry

• Digital poetry that uses links and hypertext mark-up.
• Involves set words, phrases, lines, etc., presented in variable order and parts of the poem may move and transform.
• Found online, CD-ROM, and diskette versions exist.
• The earliest examples date to no later than the mid-1980's.

Explore 21st-century and original literary genres. The module differentiates between genres like poetry, drama, fiction, and non-fiction. It also covers elements, structures, and unique features of each genre, enhancing literary appreciation.