The Poetics of Control (In Between the Poetics of Text
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Poetika kontroly (Medzi poetikou textu a poetikou udalosti )
The Poetics of Control (In Between the Poetics of Text and the Poetics of Event)

Author(s): René Bílik
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts
Published by: SAV - Slovenská akadémia vied - Ústav slovenskej literatúry SAV
Keywords: poetics; poetics of existence; control; poetics of control; individualisation; disciplinary writing;

Summary/Abstract: The fundamental question the author of the study focuses on is related to the problemof individualisation as a vital mechanism of control in terms of the construct of thecollectivistically based society. In the totalitarian society, the control as an instrumentof power is based on the radical reduction of the “movement of existence”, thatleads towards the construct of “useful man” and introduces him mainly in his socialfunction. In this context, the study analyses and takes notice of the related discursiveinstruments and genres (poetics of control), while making use of Michel Foucault’sconcept of disciplinary writing as a methodological instrument.

  • Issue Year: 66/2019
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 285-299
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Slovak
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