POWER, IMPOTENCE, VIOLENCE IN EDUCATIONAL USES OF LITERATURE

Abstract

The following paper integrates Foucault’s concept of power and Ricoeur’s, Derrida’s, De Man’s visions on literature and reading. Thus, it aims to identify literature as object of knowledge constituted within the field of literary educational discourse deeds as well as to explore some dynamic relationships between structural elements of this object, such as author, extratextual world, text, reader. The most attractive among them seems to be the author – this authority, whose death was never believed in the Bulgarian secondary school and whose resurrections seem so unexpected and disturbing from time to time…