POLITICAL PROBLEMS OF LITERARY CRITICISM (IN THE LAST 20 YEARS)

The present article, devoted to literary criticism and politics relationships in the last 20 years, is an attempt to present the changes of the criticism from the significant to the beginning of the 90s break up with the politics and the feeling of freedom form all obligations, via gained at this period of time awareness of involvement into market, communicational, ideological, and political interrelations, to the conviction of politicality of literature. A number of issues contributed to this situation, namely political matters, and especially divisions in the former opposition, the influence of post-structural conceptions, particularly feminism, which undermine the possibility of creating the neutral and universal language, and the growing dominance of the media in literary life marked by all critics regardless of their political views. The subject of my interests here is both the functioning of the term of "politicallity" and the ways it is defined in literary criticism disputes and debates, as well as the features characteristic of political critical discourse.