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Philology Matters · Series: Academic Staff · Volume 44, Issue 1 · 2023

Issues of literary types and genres, form and content relationships in literature

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Abstract

In classic literature, the concept a literary genre has its own forms of expression. It has developed not from the point of view of the literary type, but from the point of view of the attitude to genres and forms of expression. Arab literary experts explain a poem as sentences with sense and rhyme, meaning that poetry differs from prose by sense and rhyme. Based on this definition, the issue of poetic genres has been treated, that is, sense and rhyme emerged as the factors that form the genre. That is why Arabic and Persian literature critical studies under the influence of the above mentioned issues have not approached the question of literary types and genres as a separate field of science. Since the sense is based on genre changes in the poem, the science of poem forms with aruz sense is studied in the structure of aruz, and the science of genre changes that can occur under the influence of rhymes is studied in the structure of rhymes. Alisher Navoi also looked at the issue of literary genres from the point of view of forms of expression and, calling it literary genres, he gave poetic genres with the term class (giving each class of the poem a number). Genre features of poetic forms are explained in Navoi's interpretations in connection with their expressive features.
In classical literature, the relationships between form and content acquire a special meaning both in the religious-mystical interpretation and in the literary-ideological presentation. This content is one of the main scientific problems of classical literature and serves as a basis for studying the relationships between form and content in modern literature. The relationships between form and content, well-known in philosophy, are embodied in the unity of image and meaning in classical literature. This unity is reflected in all philosophical views, spiritual situations, emotional relationships, and it is considered the foundation of both Sufism philosophy and classical poetics.

Keywords:
classical literature
literary types and genres
relationships between form and content
Arabic
Persian
Turkish literature

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