International Journal of Innovative Technology and Exploring Engineering (IJITEE) ISSN: 2278-3075, Volume-8, Issue-10, August 2019 Literary trends in Cyber Space: Portrayal of the Metamodern “wings of Poesy” Amritha G, Manasi Suresh, Indu B Following the present culture and trends, it marks the dawn Abstract: English literature, after sailing through different of a myriad new genres and forms. Piret Viires in her article courses down the history, has now entered a new space, which “Literature in cyberspace” tentatively divides the cyber may affect its further cruise. The growth of technological space literature into three: has given rise to a new genre called cyber literature, which plays 1. All literary texts available in the Internet a significant role in the promotion of literary works. Cyber (WWW). This term covers prose or poetry texts literature refers to written literary texts, distributed and read on available at the home pages of professional writers; electronic screens. This electronic space provides a more flexible and convenient platform for the artistic expressions of aspiring anthologies of prose or poetry published and and budding authors. Cyber literature which emerged towards digitised; collections of classical texts (e.g. Project the end of the 1990s through blogging, later expanded in social Gutenberg2 ); online literature magazines (e.g. media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Myspace Ninniku3 ), etc….2. Non-professional literary texts etc. While the means and modes of expression changed, available at the Internet, which inclusion in literary literature was again moulded into something else, satisfying the analysis expands the boundaries of traditional needs of a modern reader. This paper explores the possibility of literature…3.Hypertext literature and cybertexts. social media and online communities as the new alternative to These would include literary texts of more complex print publication, and it also aims at studying the present and structure, which exploit various hypertext solutions, upcoming literary trends in the cyber space through a few but also intricate multimedia cybertexts [1]. (Piret examples. The case study includes an analysis of the works of Viires, 2005) Rupi Kaur, an author who paved her way for fame using This paper will be focusing on cyber literature as Instagram; Terribly Tiny Tales and other pages in Facebook which seized the young hearts with relatable snippets and prose literature made and read in the internet and on electronic poems; applications like “Haiku jam” which bring together screens, and about authors who emerged through different people from all over the world to write a Haiku in unison. The platforms in cyber world that will conceive new trends in modern generation which upgrades their lifestyle along with the cyber literature. Cyber literature has replaced the idea of technological evolution, and the contemporary issues that affect always carrying a book around, and it goes hand in hand with them, brings out a new literary culture. The unrestrained the busy and engrossing life of the modern generation where author-reader interaction further decreases the former gap these poems and fiction create a tiny escape from their which held back the readers from voicing their opinions. While it schedule. Since the majority of the world is addicted to their possesses both positive and negative effects, it creates a space phones, literature through digital media is received with where everyone can be a writer, though only the fittest will open arms. It not only entertains its audience, but inspires survive. many hidden talents to reach a larger crowd. They also have Keywords: Cyber literature, Literary trends, Rupi Kaur, an opportunity to listen to what their readers have to say, thus Instagram, Terribly Tiny Tales making the reader- writer interactivity its unique and exceptional feature. From being merely a “photo and video I. INTRODUCTION sharing social networking site”, Instagram has travelled a While every ruler has to uncrown himself someday, long way towards influencing its users. Online shopping, literature is a czar who wouldn’t leave the throne. Through brand promotions, and actors promoting their movies online the years, the medium and form went through long and has become a common sight on social networks now. In the complex paths, but still, the human appetite for literature present day scenario, where writers too occupy a space in the never ends. With the emergence of internet and digital “celebrity label”, much has been done to create an impression media, literature too has created a space for itself. Since the of their personal lives and private thoughts open to the platform is freely available all around the world, cyber public. Social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram literature opens up a new era in the history of literature. give the people a personal connection with the person they follow, by getting a sneak-peak of their daily lives. Whether Revised Manuscript Received on August 12, 2019. they are authentic or made up, the public choose to follow * Correspondence Author their league. Many small artists across the world have found Amritha. G: Research Scholar, Department of English, Amrita School of Arts and Sciences, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri Campus, the platform they longed for, through these applications. Kollam, Kerala, India. Email: [email protected] Rupi Kaur, Nikita Gill and Atticus are a few among the many Manasi Suresh: PG Student, Department of English, Amrita School of Arts poets who slipped into limelight by sharing their musings and Sciences , Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri Campus, Kollam, Kerala, India. through Instagram or similar platforms. Indu. B: Assistant Professor, Department of English, Amrita School of Arts and Sciences , Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri Campus, Kollam, Kerala, India. Published By: Retrieval Number J11680881019/2019©BEIESP Blue Eyes Intelligence Engineering DOI: 10.35940/ijitee.J1168.0881019 3103 & Sciences Publication Literary trends in Cyber Space: Portrayal of the Metamodern “wings of Poesy” Most of them shared some common trademarks, This snippet published in the series #train in Terribly Tiny comments Nilanjana Roy in her article “Voices of the New Tales is an example of omissions of punctuation, apostrophes Instagram Poets” in The Financial Times, “the few sparse and capitalization. The linguistic framework of a lines, set in an old-fashioned font; the earnestness; the conventional sentence structure was manipulated simply to solemn aphorisms; the slam poet’s trick of the minor fall, the suit the theme ‘#train’. But this manipulation hasn’t been major lift on each line; the cute drawings and photographs brought under serious criticism as the modern world is on an [2].” Since cyber space has proved an uncontrolled enroute to digitalization. This nonsensical publishing forum, along with the genuine contributors, there transmogrifications or inanities lead to a kind of literary will be many parodists who blatantly follow others’ trend termed by Naomi Baron, an American linguist, as statements. The law of survival is applicable in this arena too, “Linguistic Whateverism”. This phrase refers to the current as successful writers like Rupi Kaur will possibly manage to tendency of the wired generation to the conventional rules of place her foot in the history of literature and the weak grammar, punctuation and usage, and “say -- well, parodists will fall into junk literature. whatever.” Decades before, Shakespeare observed that “brevity is the The primary manifestation of this attitude is a soul of wit”, and now, brevity is the new vogue. Micro-fiction marked indifference to the need for consistency in had made a silent entry much earlier in literature but became linguistic usages. At issue is not whether to say who audible only at present. The history of “flash fiction” or or whom or whether none as the subject of a “short short stories” can be traced back to the 1920s through sentence takes a singular or plural verb, but whether the Cosmopolitan magazine and in 1930s through the it really matters which form you use. This challenge anthology “American Short Short Story.” These bite sized to the fundamental principle of language as 100-200 word fiction made its stunning re-entry through the rule-governed behavior is less a display of linguistic emergence of Twitter. These later developed many micro defiance than a natural reflection of changing blogging services like “twitterature” which includes diverse educational policies, shifts in social agendas, a genres like poetry, prose, aphorisms and fiction written move in academia towards philosophical relativism, individually or collaboratively. Terribly Tiny Tales and the magnifying effects of technologies that support Scribbled Stories are platforms that promote micro-fiction computer mediated communication, and a and provide a space where everyone can be a writer, and commitment to life on the clock [5]. (Naomi S. applications like Haiku Jam are creative initiatives that hand Baron, 2003) out a chance for people across the world to create Haikus in According to American structuralists and neogrammarians, unison. language is supposed to have a linguistic regularity at the phonological and morphological level. Various theories II. LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE IN proposed by structuralists and linguists comprehend the CYBERSPACE linguistic competence of a language user extensively. But, Language in cyber space announces