SPECIFICS OF THE GENRE, METHOD AND STRUCTURE OF THE POEM “SISTER OF THE SEVEN KNIGHTS” BY M. MAMAKAEV

Abstract

The article examines the main trends in the development of the lyre-epic genre of the poem in the newly written professional literatures of the North Caucasus of the second third of the twentieth century based on the material of Chechen literature and, specifically, the poem “Sister of the seven knights” by M.A. Mamakaev. The author characterizes the degree of study of the problem in scientific literature and the scientific novelty of this work, problems and challenges of the time in professional national literatures of the 1930s. The aim of the analysis of correlation between realistic and romantic tendencies in his early poems, caused by the need for the identification of ethnic cultural code, to clarify priorities nationality traditional folk character in a revolutionary modernization of the spiritual sphere of life of the individual and society, the actualization and transformation of signs search for updated values and ideals, the ratio in this process of tradition and innovation. As a result of the conducted research, the author concludes that the main attitudes and searches of Mahomet Mamakayev are important in ideological, artistic and aesthetic terms for developing promising principles and directions for the development of national literature.