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Department of Literature Theory
Phone (+994 12) 539 10 28 
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E-mail

edebiyyat_nezeriyyesi@mail.ru 

Chief 

Tahire Gasham gizi Mammad

Doctor of Philology, professor  

Total number of employees 20 
Basic activity directions  

1.Historical poetics of Azerbaijani Literature;

2. General regularities of the theory of literature and literary-historical process;

3. Historical and methodological matters of the literary-theoretical thought   

Main scientific achievements 

Systematization of  East-West, as well as Azerbaijan experience of  the history of the theory of literature;

Determination of intersecting and separated pointsin comparison of typological features of literary movements with classical and Azerbaijani literature of the new period;

Systematization of stable and changeable aspects of the dramatic kinds and genres as per the regularities of  the national literature;

Revealing the originalities of the modern Azerbaijani prose in the context of Orient and West;

Evaluating of Azerbaijani poetry in the context of traditions and novelty;

 Definition of retro copy in the system of  theoretical categories;

Classification of mythological motives and elements of Sufism in the Azerbaijani Literature of XIX and XX century and so on;