Literary criticism as an ideological discourse
This article is an analysis-reconstruction of «symptoms» of patriotic literary-critical discourse as an ideological discourse. It describes procedures, practices, mechanisms of knowledge production. Discourse analysis allowed to identify conscious and unconscious rules of interpretation and description of the facts of literary reality, mental guidelines which generate patriotic texts: emotionally-explosive thinking by oppositions with invariant «ours - stranger»; understanding of the literary-critical activities as the uncompromising struggle, battle against the «enemy» sophisticated in their strategies; image of the catastrophic consequences in case of victory of «foreign» ideology; criticism as an accusation, exposing, prohibition, symbolic punishment; self-presentation as a savior for the undecided, disoriented reader; thought about the reader as an object of conversion. The analysis proves the impossibility of the dialogue between «patriots» and «liberals» whose discourse «scripts» in the criticism aren’t intersected.