World litt

• Literature


  Language artistically used to achieve identifiable literary qualities and to convey meaningful messages
• Literary qualities


  • Artistry
  • Suggestiveness
  • Intellectual value
  • Spiritual value
  • Permanence
  • Universality
  • Style
• Literature is characterized by beauty of expression and form and by universality, intellectual and emotional appeal
• World literature


  The entirety of global literature or the circulation of literary materials into all parts of the world, regardless of their origins
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe introduced the concept of WELTLITERATUR in 1827 to describe the growing availability of texts from other nations
• Issues faced in world literature


  • Eurocentric
  • Challenges in circulation
  • Literary pieces being "lost in translation"
• A literary text may cross borders due to its artistic merit, the political situation surrounding it, or its popularity
• World literature (according to David Damrosch)


  All literary works that circulate beyond their culture of origin, either in translation or in their original language
• Reasons why people read literature


  • Reading for pleasure
  • Reading for relaxation
  • Reading to acquire knowledge
  • Reading to confront experience
  • Reading for artistic appreciation
• 21st century reader


  • Grew up using technology as a primary learning tool
  • Capable of navigating and interpreting digital formats and media
  • Possesses literary skills including technological abilities
• Generally, 50% of the narrative in illustrated novels is presented without words. The reader must interpret the images in order to comprehend the complete story
• Digi-fiction


  A literary experience that combines three media: book, movie/video, and Internet website
• Graphic novels


  Narratives in comic book formats, longer than comic books
• Graphic novels


  • Trese Volume 1 Aswang
  • The Mythology Class
  • Mythspace Volume 1
• Manga


  The Japanese word for comics, used in the English-speaking world as a generic term for all comic books and graphic novels originally published in Japan
• Different kinds of manga


  • Shonen
  • Shojo
  • Seinen
  • Josei
  • Kodomo
• Different kinds of manga


  • Shakespeare manga
  • American literature manga
• Chick-lit


  A genre of fiction that addresses issues of modern womanhood, often humorously and lightheartedly
• Flash fiction


  • Brevity
  • A complete plot
  • Surprise
• Flash fiction


  • Broken Girl by Jessie Roark
  • For sale: baby shoes, never worn by Ernest Hemingway
• SMS text poetry


  Poetry written in the form of SMS text messages
• SMS text poetry


  • ODE 2 MY BIKE
  • TEXTULA by Frank G. Rivera