New concepts in the theory of modern Kazakh literature studies

A. K. Matayeva, S. B. Zhumagul, E. I. Kopteva

asyl_mataeva@mail.ru

L. N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University, Nur-Sultan, Republic of Kazakhstan

Omsk State Pedagogical University, Omsk, Russian Federation

New concepts in the theory of modern Kazakh literature studies

Abstract: Actual problems of the theory of Kazakh literature are scientific and methodological problems and the main development trends in this area. The purpose of the work is to consider and analyze the modern concepts of national literature, to assess the contribution of scientists of the period of independence of Kazakhstan. The methodological basis of the work is the principles inherent in literary science, and also complex and systematic methods of analysis are used. The article examines new trends in the theory of Kazakh literature, changes in methodology determined by the advanced positions of world literary criticism. In this regard, the article offers an analytical review of the main scientific and theoretical studies in the field of literary criticism, defines the evolution of the concepts of scientific and theoretical thought, identifies the principles and main aspects of studying literature in a new way, shows certain achievements in close relationship with historical stages, as well as tasks future research; the literary-theoretical and philosophical-aesthetic searches in modern Kazakh literary criticism are evaluated, the prospects for its development are determined. In the modern theory of Kazakh literature, there are enough works in which it is possible to highlight the analysis of individual artistic categories in a work of art, in particular from the point of view of structuralism, structural poetics. It is also often given to the methods of hermeneutics, semiotics as determinant artistic approaches to literature.

Keywords: theoretical concepts, national self-identification, methodology, structuralism, postmodernism, mythopoetics, artistic and aesthetic principle, narratology.

Paper submitted: December 20, 2021.

For citation: Matayeva A. K., Zhumagul S. B., Kopteva E. I. (2022). New concepts in the theory of modern Kazakh literature studies. Russian Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 75–84. DOI: 10.17238/issn1998-5320.2022.16.1.9.

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