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The article is devoted to verbal creative works of an iconic poetess of Runet (blogosphere of the Russian Web) 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’ve identified several key components of the poet’s world view, that are typical of contemporary youth subcultures. These values are non-conformism, elitism, understood as esotery, overall searching orientation of creativity, adherence to unofficial information sources and ways of communication, urge to find like-minded people, love and faith in own special God. As regards to poetics, the main features are extreme extend of expressionism, metaphorization, urbanism (poeticizing of urban space), as well as an appeal to the genres of youth creativity, slang, ICT (otherwise, web) vocabulary and obscene lexis.
The author of the article makes a conclusion that bright expression of some typical characteristics of youth culture by Vera Polozkova makes her extremely popular both as a poet and as a performer both in Runet and outside it (at live performances). At the same time subculture issues and poetics do not limit the variety of the writer’s lyric themes and poetic means. Her early works continue splendid traditions of Russian literature.
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Zolotova T. A., Efimova N. I., Sitnova A. A. (2010) Verbal’noe tvorchestvo molodezhnykh soobshchestv v sisteme sovremennoy kul’tury [Verbal Creative Work of Youth Communities in Nowadays Culture System]. Ot kongressa k kongressu. Materialy Vtorogo Vserossiyskogo kongressa fol’kloristov [From Congress to Congress. Materials of the Second All-Russian Congress of Folklore Researchers]. Collected Papers. Vol. 1. Moscow. Pp. 31–40. In Russian.
Zolotova T. A. (2014) Verbal’noe tvorchestvo molodezhnykh soobshchestv [Verbal creative work of youth communities]. Mirovaya klassika i molodezhnaya kul’tura: materialy Vserossiyskoy nauchno-prakticheskoy konferentsii s mezhdunarodnym uchastiem [The World Classics and Youth Culture: Materials of All-Russian scientific and practical conference with international participation.]. Yoshkar-Ola. Pp. 21–28. In Russian.