THE NAZIRA TRADITION AND MODERN PROSE: LINGUOPOETIC MANIFESTATIONS OF ARTISTIC REWORKING IN THE UZBEK LANGUAGE

This article explores the classical Eastern practice of nazira–poetic response-writing–as a historically stabilised cultural mechanism of artistic rewriting, and argues for its conceptual relevance to modern prose through rewriting/retelling strategies. Nazira is discussed not as mere imitation but as creative contestation and renewed interpretation, where a later text enters a value-laden relation with an earlier one. The theoretical framework integrates intertextuality and transtextuality (including hypertextual relations between a later text and its pre-text), enabling a linguopoetic description of how “rewriting” becomes aesthetically meaningful at the level of language. Methodologically, the article relies on the semantic vs metasemiotic distinction in linguistic stylistic analysis: from identifying language units to explaining their aesthetic functions in the artistic text.