Chapter 3: Popular Literature PDF

CHAPTER 3 --------- THE POPULAR LITERATURE ---------------------- GENERAL OBJECTIVES ------------------ 1. Integrate the nature, appeal and social function of popular literature as the door for the further discussion of such topic. ------------------------------------------------------------...

CHAPTER 3 --------- THE POPULAR LITERATURE ---------------------- GENERAL OBJECTIVES ------------------ 1. Integrate the nature, appeal and social function of popular literature as the door for the further discussion of such topic. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Examine the genres of popular literature, as well as the underlying types that some of them have, for the provision of the different distinctive classification of the literary pieces of popular literature. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. Discuss the challenges in popular literature in terms of its cause and possible effect in the literary pieces underlying popular literature. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **LESSON 1. NATURE, APPEAL AND SOCIAL FUNCTION OF POPULAR LITERATURE** **WHAT TO EXPECT?** 1. **Discuss the nature, appeal and social function of popular literature.** 2. **Identify the pioneers who originated popular literature.** 3. **Name and provide for a brief discussion on the enumerated compositions.** A. **Nature and Appeal of Popular Literature** B. **Social Function of Popular Literature** **REFERENCES** **WHAT TO EXPECT?** 1. Define each classification of popular literature. 2. Explain the different categories of popular literature. 3. Identify the genre from which a certain writing piece belong. 4. List down literary works according to their respective classification, category and genre. A. **Classification** 1. **Poetry** **Structure of Poetry** - couplet (2 lines) - tercet (3 lines) - quatrain (4 lines) - cinquain (5 lines) - sestet (6 lines) (sometimes it\'s called a sexain) - septet (7 lines) - octave (8 lines)  2. **Form** a. **Lyric Poetry** b. **Narrative Poem** c. **Descriptive Poem** **Types of Poems that are Subtypes of the Three Styles above:** 1. **Ode** 2. **Elegy** 3. **Sonnet** 4. **Ballad** 5. **Epic** **Elements of poetry** 1. **Alliteration** 2. **Assonance** 3. **Imagery** 4. **Rhyme schemes** 5. **Stanza** 6. **Tone** - The Sun and her Flowers by RupeKaur 3. **Historical Fiction** - Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden B. **Category** 1. **Biographies / Autobiographies** - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou 2. **Classics** - Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 3. **Comic / Graphic Novels** - The Walking Dead: Compendium One by Robert Kirkman C. **Genre** 7. **Action / Adventure** - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling - Life Pi by Yaan Mantel 8. **Detective / Mystery** - And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie 9. **Fantasy** - The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates D. **Horror** 1. **Gothic horror** ### ### Supernatural Horror ### Non-supernatural Horror - The Bird Box by Josh Malerman E. **Romance** 1. **Gothic** - *Jane Eyre* by Charlotte Bronte - *Wuthering Heights* by Emily Bronte - *Frankenstein *by Mary Shelley - *The Scarlet Letter* by Nathaniel Hawthorne. ### **Historical** - *The Last of the Mohicans* by James Fenimore Cooper - *Rob Roy *by Sir Walter Scott. ### **Contemporary/Modern** - comedy-romance - tragic-romance - satire-romance - serious romance - Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell F. **Science Fiction** **Types of Science Fiction** Science fiction is usually distinguished as either "hard" or "soft." ### **Hard science fiction** ### **Soft science fiction** - The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins G. **Suspense Thriller** **Types of Thriller** ### **Psychological Thriller** ### **Crime Thriller** ### **Mystery Thriller** - The Guardians by John Grisham H. **Comedy** Types of Comedy --------------- ### Romantic Comedy ### Comedy of Humors ### Comedy of Manners ### Sentimental Comedy ### Tragicomedy - Mr. Sunshine -- Korean Drama - Goblin -- Korean Romance -- Comedy **REFERENCES** **LESSON 3. CHALLENGES FACED BY POPULAR LITERATURE** **WHAT TO EXPECT?** **3. Formulate solutions for those challenges in popular literature.** **Here are the challenges striking popular literature:** 1. Means of book promotion, distribution and retail destabilized; 2. Ink-on-paper manufacturing is an outmoded, toxic industry with steeply rising costs; 3. The Gothic fate of poor slain Poetry is the spectre at this dwindling feast; 4. Although there is a big tendency of greater income for the authors whose works are famous enough for people patronize it, an endless fear of an instant fall down of popularity, due to the left and right arising compositions, is just around the corner; and 5. Some genres in popular literature are not that favored by the attention of the public. REFERENCES ---------- Sterling, B. (2020). *Eighteen challenges in contemporary literature.* https://www.wired.com/2009/05/eighteen-challenges-in-contemporary-literature/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Writing creative nonfiction.* (n.d.). https://davehood59.wordpress.com/2010/02/17/writing-creative-nonfiction --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------