DEVELOPMENTAL FEATURES OF MODERN AZERBAIJAN LITERARY CRITICISM

Abstract

Literary criticism is one of the important areas of literary studies, a type of literary and artistic creativity devoted to the explanation, analysis, and evaluation of the literary process, works of art, as well as the determination and confirmation of the principles of creativity. The task of literary criticism is to evaluate the modern literary process, newly created works, as well as the past heritage in terms of modern social and literary and aesthetic requirements.

The critic determines the value of emerging literature, evaluates individual literary and artistic examples, the work of writers, makes generalizations, and helps the reader understand the modern literary process.

Literary criticism is the study, evaluation and interpretation of literature. Modern literary criticism is often influenced by literary theory, which is a philosophical discussion of the goals and methods of literature. Although these two activities are closely related, the opinions of literary critics and literary theorists do not always coincide.

Literary criticism and literary criticism are one of the important branches of Azerbaijani literature, which has an ancient and rich history. However, compared to other areas of Azerbaijani literature, the history of literary criticism has not been studied enough and has been left out of serious, systematic research. In particular, during the Soviet political regime, in many cases, national literary criticism and literary criticism were silently passed over in the course of research on the history of literature, scientific and theoretical studies were not mentioned, and in some works, the conclusion was even formed that the history of literary criticism began in the 19th century. However, the history of Azerbaijani literary criticism is as old as the history of the national art of speech and it should be studied in parallel with fiction.

As is known, in Azerbaijani literature, there is a tradition of theoretical and aesthetic thought developing and forming against the background of the works of artists engaged in artistic creativity, along with professional literary criticism. This factor should not be forgotten when conducting research on the history of literary criticism