Creative Work of Cultic Poets of Runet as a Subcultural Phenomenon

Tatiana A Zolotova

doi:10.5539/res.v7n8p286

Abstract

The article is devoted to the verbal creative work of a cult Runet author Vera Polozkova. The article is based on the material of her early lyrics, presented in the first published book “Nepoemanie” (2008). The poems by Polozkova are considered in the context of youth subculture traditions. We identified such key components of the poet’s worldview typical of modern youth subcultures as non-conformism, elitism, the overall searching orientation of her creative work (information and communication technologies, the need for finding like-minded people, love and faith in God), in regards to poetics the main features are extreme expression (metaphorization), urbanism (poetization of urban space), as well as an appeal to the genres of youth creative work, slang, ICT vocabulary and obscene language. The author of the article makes a conclusion that the bright expression of some typical characteristics of youth culture by Vera Polozkova makes her a popular poet and performer both on Runet and outside it (live performances). At the same time subcultural issues and poetics do not limit the variety of the writer’s lyric themes and poetic means. Her early works continue wonderful traditions of Russian literature, heritage of Marina Tzvetaeva, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Joseph Brodsky and others. The article also identifies and focuses on the essential features of the electronic (digital) literature and the possibility of considering it as a space in which a number of subcultural associations/communities exist.

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Electronic literature—“is the literature, created and distributed via the Internet”—has been developing for two decades (Chernyak, 2010)
We identified such key components of the poet’s worldview typical of modern youth subcultures as non-conformism, elitism, the overall searching orientation of her creative work, in regards to poetics the main features are extreme expression, urbanism, as well as an appeal to the genres of youth creative work, slang, ICT vocabulary and obscene language
3.1 Poetry Writing by Vera Polozkova in Modern Criticism

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Electronic (digital) literature—“is the literature, created and distributed via the Internet”—has been developing for two decades (Chernyak, 2010). There is no agreement on the issue and the term “network literature” is used in two meanings: 1) as a trend in literature and literary criticism in which texts are created and published on the Web (on the Internet); 2) as an association of writers, essay authors and critics who begin and continue working on the Web” (Desyaterik, 2014). At the same time the term in its first meaning (as a trend in literature and literary criticism) is quite ambiguous and has both a broad and a narrow meaning. Following Dmitry Manin’s term, electronic (digital) literature in its broad sense is interpreted as any fiction text published on the Web (no matter if it belongs to the author working on the Web or out of it); electronic (digital) literature in its narrow sense is essentially considered as “a text published on the Web so that its transfer to the paper is associated with a significant loss” (Manin, 2014)

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