Historiography Of Crimean Tatar Literature Criticism

Despite rather considerable changes observed in the last three decades in the field of the study of the Crimean Tatar literary heritage, the fact that the vast majority of relevant studies relate to the features of the history of development and theory of Crimean Tatar literature can not but attract attention. At the same time today the problems of the history of the development of Crimean Tatar literary criticism remains understudied. The list of the studies on this issue is very limited. It consists of a few publications on individual aspects of the topic. This circumstance does not correlate in any way with the huge potential material for research. Speaking of Crimean Tatar literature, we mean a multi-hundred-year literary tradition, valuable not only in its narrow sense, but giving the world literature many phenomena that significantly exceed the scope of the Crimean Tatar literature itself. Moreover, throughout the entire period of its existence, this heritage was subjected to reflection in one way or another, and from the end of the 19 th century it became the subject of research and an independent discipline – literary criticism. This paper is the first review study that aims to give a general idea of the history of the development of Crimean Tatar literary criticism, assess the potential of the relevant heritage and outline the prospects for further research in this area.