THE AESTHETICS OF POETIC AND NARRATIVE CONSTRUCTIONS OF CHILDHOOD IN UZBEK AND ENGLISH LITERATURE.
Keywords:
purity, moral clarity, empathy, individual identity, national endurance, heritage, innocence, psychological growth.Abstract
This article explores the aesthetic dimensions of childhood representation in Uzbek and English literary traditions through a comparative qualitative approach. Drawing on the poetic works of Abdulla Oripov, Erkin Vohidov, and Khurshid Davron, alongside English texts by William Blake, Charles Dickens, and R.J. Palacio, the study highlights how literary form shapes cultural meanings of childhood. Uzbek poetry constructs childhood as a timeless, collective emblem of purity, national memory, and continuity, whereas English narrative prose presents it as an individualized and developmental stage marked by psychological struggle, resilience, and social inclusion.
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