THE PROFESSIONAL IMPROVISATIONAL CREATIVITY IN THE LITERATURE OF THE TURKIC PEOPLES

Abstract

The purpose of the research is to reveal of the patterns of the formation and centuries-old development of the common Turkic and Bashkir author’s oral poetry. The relevance of this article is determined by understudying the comparatively research of the problem.

The main method is historical-comparative and system approach to studying the Turkic national professional improvisers’ creation.

The author's verbal poetry, as unique phenomenon in artistic literature, took place in the history of culture of many peoples of the world. There, unsurpassed masters of the poetic word composed their compositions, as a rule, by improvisation in front of the public and expressed their personal world view and ethical assessment of reality. Particularly widespread was the cultivated professional creativity among the Turkic peoples. Authors of verbal poetry combined art creativity with great public activity. They enjoyed popular authority among people, courageously intervened in the activities of rulers and leaders. A characteristic feature of the creativity of verbal writers is to touch upon the most pressing issues of the time that are relevant to a given society at the time of a public address to people.

By the nature and content of the work of the masters of the word, the centuries-old Bashkir verbal authorial poetry was consonant with the work of the related Turkic-speaking peers. Bashkir sesensoften turned to aitysh (poetic competition), kubair, epic, song, and partly – bait. These are the genres widely spread in the Bashkir folklore. Although having the same name, the same genres in the author's poetry differed from the folklore by conscious authorship, creative individuality, the closeness of objects of the image to the reality, the stability of texts, the prevalence of philosophy and didactics.

The main results of the work allow us to state that the professional author's poetry of the Turkic peoples, as well as the creativity sesens of the 16-18th centuries was at the level of universal achievements of literature both in content and in various forms of its reproduction. At the same time, it was generally characterized by distinct local characteristics, and in each author – by unique personal features.

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