Psychological Prose by A. Bittirova: Ethical, Social, and Gender Aspects of Interpretation

The subject of this research article is psychological prose, and the object of study is the works of the Balkarian writer A. Bittirova, who joined the literary process in the late 1990s. The purpose of this work is to examine the dominant themes, artistic features, narrative techniques (introspection, retrospection), and figurative structures used by the writer in creating psychological texts. The article analyzes the phenomenon itself without delving into the historical patterns of the genre's development, and how the phenomenology of psychologism manifests itself at the structural and content levels of the author's text. For the purpose of familiarization, the preamble outlines the fundamental features of psychological prose and explores the key problematic aspects of A. Bittirova's work to identify its correspondence with this genre. The artist's field of vision includes the typology of conflict and character images, with a focus on the moral and ethical aspects of interpersonal communication. The author's creative techniques and their analysis lead to the functionality of national prose in the realistic genre. After analyzing a corpus of literary works in medium and short narrative forms, we conclude that the Balkarian writer's stories and novellas are dominated by confessional and introspective elements, which are characteristic of women's psychological prose.

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