MULTIMEDIA CONCRETE POETRY AS A CLASS OF VIRTUAL LITERATURE

Abstract

Literary texts created in virtual environment find their close relations to the works of a new generation of Concrete poetry. The possibilities of text fragments colouring, providing them with audio accompaniment, and activating their code make multimedia texts the most adequate way to realise the creative idea of a writer working in the aforementioned fields. The main questions that we pose in this study are: the differential features of the poetic form that we place at the centre of our attention in the context of virtual literature; the specifics of the existing samples of Concrete poetry created and intended for perception in a virtual environment provide and what are the poetic features of this class of poetic texts. At the intersection of the results of the reader’s perception of the graphic side of this text and their comparison with the results of reading the units that make up the text, the semantic landscape of the text emerges. The search for the most adequate term to designate the array of texts that are created and perceived with the participation of modern computer technologies is an important moment in the theoretical and literary understanding of the literature of the virtual environment. The material for our analysis is the works that represent the main classes of the virtual literature. This investigation was made in the context of wider problem, that we are aimed to describe in the fullest extent possible: namely it is the practice of transferring a literary text from one media to another together with all the specific consequences that may occur. This problem needs to be discussed in the case of the publication of hypertextual and multimedia literary texts. These works are examples of literary forms that significantly change traditional ideas about the structure of a literary text, the boundaries of literary genres, involving means of expression from other classes of art – painting, cinema, animation, music.