Precedent texts as meaning-forming triggers of small poetic Internet genres

Abstract

The article examines how precedent texts are involved in the creation of a semantic fabric of "pies" of amateur Internet poems with a poetic structure of an unrhymed quatrain, and their branches of powders, depresyashki, artichokes. The material were miniatures containing precedent texts, selected from the «Poetory» website and written by different authors. The analysis of the selected miniatures was carried out by the method of linguistic interpretation of the text.

It is stated that Internet miniatures refer to literary postmodernism and actively refer to one of the style-forming techniques of postmodernism – the use of precedent texts. In "pies" and their offshoots there are various precedent texts: phraseological units, literary quotes, aphorisms and their excerpts, names of literary and fairy-tale characters, titles of works, etc. The precedent text can be used fragmentarily, in the form of allusions. The article states that the precedent texts are a semantic trigger that allows you to create the meaning of the "pie". The techniques of creating the meaning of a miniature using a precedent text are considered. All techniques are based on the "frame" use and perception of precedent texts. A “frame” technique is a technique in which a scenario, a “picture” arising from the precedent text, and the further semantic development of this scenario serves to create the meaning of a miniature. The “frame” method has several options: “aiming” at the “frame” use of the precedent text, paradoxically-contrasting development of the topic of the precedent text, the method of “antithesis unfolding”, "concatenation" of several precedent texts, combining several methods of using the precedent text in one miniature. It is also argued that the "frame" use of precedent texts allows not only to create the meaning of the miniature, but also to convey it concisely in accordance with the canons of the genre   a maximum of 4 lines. Thus, precedent texts not only act as triggers for the "extraction" of deep content, the meaning of Internet miniatures, but also make it possible to minimize the expression plan, creating an increased semantic richness of the text.