Stars of poetry? The popularity of instapoets and related phenomena – an attempt to reconnaissance Cover Image

Gwiazdy poezji? Popularność instapoetek i pokrewne zjawiska – próba rekonesansu
Stars of poetry? The popularity of instapoets and related phenomena – an attempt to reconnaissance

Author(s): Marta Stusek
Subject(s): Anthropology, Media studies, Communication studies, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Culture and social structure , Theory of Communication, Crowd Psychology: Mass phenomena and political interactions, Human Ecology, Sociology of Culture
Published by: Szkoła Wyższa Psychologii Społecznej
Keywords: poetry; instapoets; Facebook; Instagram; social media; instapoetry

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the popularity of instapoets and related phenomena. The author studies the problems regarding the critical reception of the work of poets active on social media, reconstructing the arguments of various sides of the literary critics’ dispute. In the first part of the work the essence of the phenomenon and the resulting controversies are explained. In the second part of the analysis, other cases of the popularity of poets on the Internet are subjected to analysis. The article combines a critical literary approach with the sociology of literature. The research material is published in recent years by the volumes of contemporary poets related to the Internet, their non-literary and about literary activity, as well as critical texts on the subject.

  • Issue Year: 59/2019
  • Issue No: 01
  • Page Range: 74-84
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Polish