The hidden violence in Literature

The reader of Literature  is invented as a subject in relation to the "world" of the novel by an act of interpellation that is efficacious to the degree that it is contradictory.

 Contradictory.in the sense that it appealing to the reader on the basis of an assumed sharing of cognitive authority whose ground is hollowed out in the very act of the appeal. 

 The reader is both threatened with and incited to violence (excitation) at the same time as knowledge