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    LESSON 3: LITERARY GENRES

    SECOND SEMESTER | QUARTER 4 | SUBJECT: 21ST CENTURY LITERATURE

    Modern literary genres gain popularity due to the advent of technologies such as internet and other
    virtual media which become the major platforms of most of modern literary texts like graphic and
    flash fictions.

    GRAPHIC FICTION or GRAPHIC NOVEL

    o It is a comic book narrative that is equivalenet in form and dimension to the prose novel
    (Campbell 200, 81).
    o The pictures are arranged in a sequenced in image panels and dialogues are written in speech
    bubbles.
    o The illustration allow the readers to imagine and experience the characters and events in the strory.

    Features of Graphic fiction according to Singh (2012):

    1. Autographic forms are the marks of the author;s handwiritng which creates an impact that the
    whole novel is a manuscript and thus provide a sense of intimacy,
    2. Graphic novelels encourage interactivity in th minds off the reader as he fills in the blanks between
    image panels.
    3. Filling in the blanks between image panels makes the reader imagine the actions portrayed in the
    story.
    4. The language, syntax, and meaning of a graphic novel spring primarily through the relationship
    between images than words.
    5. It combines book and screen.

    Examples of Graphic Novels:

    1. “In the Shadow of o It tells the story about the terrorist attack on September 11 in America.

    No Tower: 9/11” by o This also depicts the traumatic and tragic experiences of American

    Art Spiegelman in people during the 9/11 terrorist attack.

    2004`

    2. “The Barn Owl’s o It portrays the 18th century Calcutta exploiting the myth of the

    Wondrous Capers” “Wondering Jew.”

    by Sarnath Banerjee

    in 2009

    3. “Louis Riel” by o A fictionalized violent rebellion in the 19th century on the Canadian

    Chester Brown in praire who led by Riel.

    2003
    FLASH FICTION
    o It is an imaginative literature of extreme brevity that could range from a word to a thousand.
    o It is known as micro stories, postcard fiction, nanotales, and short shorts.

    Characteristics of Flash Fiction according to Sustana (2020):


    1. Brevity. It presents the story with fewes words as possible.

    2. Complete plot. It emphasizes the development of plot. It has ending, middle, and ending.

    3. Surprising ending. The successful hallmark of a flash fiction is its twist at the end of the story.

    Examples of Flash Fiction:

    1. “Angels and o A story of various explanation for the color of the sky that involves

    Blueberries” by Tara angels and blueberries.

    Campbell First lines:


    “Why is the sky blue?” you ask. Well it all depend on who’s
    answering.

    2. “Taylor Swift: by o It tells a weird stirt of how anyone can order a perfectly clone of Taylor

    Hugh Behm- Swift at his doorstep.

    Steinberg First line:


    You’re in love; it’s great, you wipe on your phone and order: the next
    day a Taylor Swift clone shows up at your house.

    3. “Unnecessary o It is a story of finding an old and torn teddy bear, “unnecessary things”

    Things” by Ttayana (items that do not serve any useful purpose), that she adored as a child.

    Tolstaya First lines:


    This teddy bear once had amber eyes made from special glass – each
    one had a pupil and an iris.
    The bear itsekf was gray and stiff, with wiry fur. I adored hime.

    Additional

    Part of a Plot:

    1. Exposition

    2. Rising Action

    3. Climax

    4. Falling Action

    5. Resolution

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