What Do We Do with Poetics? – A Student’s Perspective

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to consider to what degree the changes that have taken place in literature (the turn toward cybernetic literature) have directly influenced both literary criticism and poetics understood as a scholarly discipline and academic subject. Based on various examples, I reflect on whether the Polish philology students of today are equipped with tools for studying “techsts,” and also whether the creation of new tools is needed. The student perspective adopted here is meant to permit an analysis “from below” of the influence of new media on culture, and the question of how literary works are experienced by their audience in the (post-) digital age.