Critical judgments are forms of political and ideological statements. Criticism assigns new and already known literary facts, meaning them as “own”, “foreign”, “classical”, “folk”, etc. The analysis of the literary critique of the “patriots” reveals a specific communication, which is carried out both between the critic and the reader, and between the critic and discourse. There is a doctrine that determines the way of seeing the world, the way of ordering reality and is manifested in the conscious and unconscious rules of speaking about the facts of literature, in cognitive presuppositions that generate patriotic texts. This is the perception of literary-critical activity as a struggle with a sophisticated “enemy”, thinking by opposition, t...