CONTEMPORARY AND POPULAR EMERGENT LITERATURE
This course focuses on critical issues in contemporary and popular emergent world literature and genres.
This course would be of great help for the learners to define the meaning of literature and popular literature, popular literature in relation to popular culture, various genre in popular literature classification. Also, it helps to identify the characteristics of popular literature, its forms, and emerging themes in popular literary works. Students will be able to critize and analyze the historical, social, political, and literary dynamics which foster the development of a specific genre of popular literature. Themes and concerns that define the genre, reflect the culture, characterize the history of the genre, extend across cultures, and/or appeal to a given culture or subculture are also analyze in this course. Lastly, they would come up to historical issues that is present in today's time that can be relatable from the issues given in the literary work.
What are the contents of this particular course?
Action/Adventure (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling)
Classics (Little Women by Louisa May Alcott)
Comic/Graphic Novel (The Walking Dead: Compendium One by Robert Kirkman)
Detective/Mystery (And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie)
Fantasy (The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates)
Historical Fiction (Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur by Arthur)
Horror (The Bird Box by Josh Malerman)
Literary Fiction (Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout)
Romance (Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell)
I hope you will enjoy reading the contents. It will help you a lot!
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