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    Emerging literary forms

    21st Century Literature


    De La Salle University
    🖳
    The 21st century reader
    Who is the 21st century reader?
    ✗ Grew up using technology
    as a primary learning tool
    ✗ Capable of navigating and
    understanding digital
    formats and media
    messages

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    What is 21st century
    literature?
    21st century literature
    ✗ Literary works created within the last decade
    2001 - onwards
    ✗ Deals with current themes/issues
    ✗ Reflects a technological culture
    ✗ Written by contemporary authors
    ✗ Various literary forms are emerging at this time

    5
    What are the emerging
    literary forms in the
    21st century?
    Illustrated novels
    ILLUSTRATED NOVELS
    ✗ Generally, 50% of the narrative is presented
    through illustrations or may not even content
    text
    ✗ The reader must interpret the images to
    comprehend the complete story
    ✗ Illustrated novels may span all genres

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    ILLUSTRATED NOVELS

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    manga
    JAPANESE MANGA
    ✗ Encompasses all comic and graphic works
    published in Japan
    ✗ Pages are read from right to left
    ✗ Five categories:
    1. Shonen
    2. Shojo
    3. Seinen
    4. Josei
    5. Kodomo
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    Flash fiction
    FLASH FICTION
    ✗ A very short story
    ✗ Characterized by the brevity
    and straightforwardness of
    presentation
    ✗ No set word count, but can
    be short as a few words

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    digi-fiction
    DIGI-FICTION
    ✗ Combines three media: book, movie/video, and
    Internet website
    ✗ In order to interpret the complete story, one
    must engage in the navigation of all three
    formats

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    DIGI-FICTION
    ✗ Read the book
    ✗ Look for clues
    ✗ Visit the website
    ✗ Play a game
    ✗ Unlock more clues

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    Doodle fiction
    DOODLE FICTION
    ✗ Incorporates doodle
    drawings and handwritten
    graphics in place of
    traditional font
    ✗ Drawings enhance the
    story, often adding
    humorous elements that
    would be missing if the
    illustrations were omitted
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    Speculative fiction
    SPECULATIVE FICTION
    ✗ Stories that take place
    beyond our known world
    ✗ Could be dystopian,
    post-apocalyptic or
    fantastical

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    Graphic novels
    Graphic novels
    ✗ A narrative work in which the story is conveyed
    through comic form
    ✗ May encompass non-fiction works, short stories,
    fictional stories, and other genres

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    Graphic novels

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    Slam poetry
    SLAM POETRY
    ✗ Art of performing
    spontaneous poetry by
    focusing on aesthetics of
    word play, intonation,
    and voice inflection

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    Emerging literary forms in the 21st century
    ✗ Illustrated Novels ✗ Doodle Fiction
    ✗ Manga ✗ Speculative Fiction
    ✗ Flash Fiction ✗ Graphic Novels
    ✗ Digi-Fiction ✗ Slam Poetry

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