Haris’s literary criticism: Problematics and genre originality

Abstract

   Despite the fact that the poetry of the outstanding poet and cultural figure of the Tatar people R. Kharis, the features of his poetic thinking, the means of creating literary images, and his style trends have been thoroughly studied by literary scholars, however, his critical and journalistic activities have remained unexplored. This article analyzes the literary and critical articles of the writer.

   The object of the research is his works devoted to the classics of Tatar literature, his contemporaries, outstanding writers of Russian and other Volga region peoples.

   The subject of our study is the problematics and topics of his critical articles, their genre diversity and the principles of evaluating literary work.

   Special attention is paid to the stylistic features and the originality of R. Kharis’s literary-critical texts. The paper evaluates the poet’s contribution to the development of Tatar literary criticism, made by his works, both in the Tatar and Russian languages, which promote the art of the national word and national poetry. We used the hermeneutic approach, semantic analysis, biographical, and cultural-historical methods when interpreting his literary texts.