INVESTIGATING THE EDUCATIONAL POEM-EPOPEI GENRE DEVELOPMENT IN THE NORTH CAUCASIAN LITERATURE

Abstract

At the turn of the XIXth and XXth centuries the form and content of the majority of North Caucasian literatures are developed, which rely mainly on the folklore and religious consciousness of the people, the traditions of the East and Russian Soviet classics, which determined the line of creative individuality evolution and the genre development of literature from the folklore-epic poem to the lyroepic one (with historic and ontological issues). The creativity by Ali Shogentsukov largely outstripped the understanding of national history and culture development by contemporaries. The origins of the driving force of his poetry are the social activity of the people necessary in a certain political situation after the nationwide catastrophe as the result of the Russo-Caucasian war. The ethnocentric tendencies of recent decades make realize indirectly the need for a weighty word of literary classics. And in this sense, the creative works by Ali Shogentsukov are not only the history of national literature development, but also a lively participation in the contemporary literary process and in the development of the genre system. That is why the purpose of this work is reasoning (comprehension and rethinking) about the nature and the specificity of the epic poem genre, with the example of the reference work by Ali Shogentsukov "Kambot and Lyatsa".