INTERDISCURSIVITY AND MULTIMODALITY OF POETIC FORMS: A CASE STUDY OF CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN POETRY

INTRODUCTION Today humanity has to accept one more challenge, so to say, to fill in a new “somatic niche” in construing the world mediated by sensor screens, monitors, laptops, iPhones, as well as by multiplicity of novel vehicles, namely segways, balancing unicycles. In such an instrumented life human body becomes computable 1 . People have to adjust to a new lifestyle, as well as new ways and means of moving, learning, teaching, and reading. Consequently, character of human communication in its various manifestations is changing. Introduction of the Internet has caused multimodality of forms construed in fiction and non-fiction discourse. In other words, various semiotic resources participate in meaning making, to a greater extent involving addressees in this process. In addition to that, boundaries between discourse genres and types become blurred. Poetic forms acquire the features of media, legal, or, sometimes, even medical discourse. In its turn, it predetermines interdiscursivity of the created forms. Particularly, this article focuses on crucial modifications of poetic forms construed in contemporary American poetic discourse, namely in its digimodernist and metamodernist genres.