THE CONCEPT OF THE PROTAGONIST IN LITERARY STUDIES: THE EVOLUTION OF THE IMAGE FROM CLASSICAL TO NARRATOLOGICAL APPROACHES
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Protagonist, narratology, narrative structure, dialogism, formalism, polyphony, typical character.Abstract
The article traces the historical and theoretical evolution of the concept of the protagonist - the central character of a literary work - from ancient poetics to modern narratology. It examines key stages in the understanding of the hero in the aesthetic systems of classicism, romanticism, realism, formalism, and M.M. Bakhtin's dialogic theory. The work analyzes the approaches of Western (M. Bal, W. Booth, J. Levin), Russian (M.M. Bakhtin, Yu.N. Tynyanov, Yu.M. Lotman, B.M. Eichenbaum), and Uzbek researchers (Sh. Rakhmatullaev, A. Safar, M. Khodjaev), which allows for the identification of cross-national typological similarities and differences. The article offers a comprehensive narratological-comparative analysis of the concept of the hero as a phenomenon of literary consciousness and the structure of the artistic text.
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