Khavzhokova, Lyudmila B.
Izvestia SOIGSI. 2021. IIS 41 (80).

Abstract:
The article is devoted to the study of the poetic heritage of Boris Kuneevich Utizhev, that is
one of the many facets of the work of the Kabardian poet, writer, playwright, scientist-linguist.
The relevance of the study is dictated, on the one hand, by the insufficient development of some
genres (sonnets, ballads, prose poems) in the Adyghe (Kabardian) literature, on the other hand,
by the need to fill the existing gap in the study of B. Utizhev»s poetic heritage. The scientific
novelty of the research lies in the fact that the poetry of this author for the first time became
the subject of a separate comprehensive study in the dialectic of form and content. The focus of
research is the poet»s poems and sonnets. Special attention is paid to the innovative genre of prose
poems, the specificity of their ideological-thematic and structural-compositional organization is
revealed. The only ballad «Song» is subjected to a detailed analysis, a genre characteristic is
given, the degree of conformity of the work to the genre declared by the author is revealed. In
general, the article examines the topics and problems, aesthetics and poetics of lyric and lyricepic
works: the main motives are revealed, the rich poetic language is studied, the characteristic
of Utizhev»s individual author style is presented. The contribution of the poet to the evolution of
national poetry is determined. A number of scientific methods were used in the work, among the
main ones – analysis, description, as well as comparative-historical and hermeneutic methods.
The results obtained can be helpful in studying the history of the Adyghe (Adyghean, Kabardian,
Circassian, Circassian abroad) literatures, more generally – the literature of the peoples of the
North Caucasus and the Russian Federation, as well as in the preparation of special courses and
writing qualification and other types of research work.

Keywords: Boris Utizhev, individual author»s style, poetry, poems, sonnet, ballad, genre, motive, poetics

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