CHRONOTOPE INTERPRETATION OF MODERN UZBEK NOVELS’ TITLES

The article provides a structural analysis of the titles “Between Two Doors” by Utkir Khoshimov, “Eternal Gates” by Isajon Sultan and “Rebellion and Humility” by Ulugbek Hamdam. The author explains the writers’ creative goal in the title of a work of art, the role of plot elements and the composition of novels in revealing the essence of the title. Criteria that are important for naming the author’s works are classified, and chronotopic representation is analyzed. In the course of the research, the principles of the structural method were applied, the relevance of the title of works to events and the direction of each storyline in revealing the content of the title were described. The analysis of the works proves that each expresses the essence of the work, the role of the title in the structure of the text is unique, that is, before the text, the title is the first semiotic sign seen by the reader, as well as the meaning of the title mediates between the reader and the work. A creative comprehension of the chronotope as a means used for arranging the work composition, structure, and constructing an epic field of the text demands a special approach to understanding the aesthetic character of the work. Since the chronotope includes all the elements of a fictional work, it is impossible to present the plot, composition, conflict, system of characters, feelings and the mood of the characters without the description of the chronotope. The chronotope is accepted to be one of the poetic means to demonstrate the reality as well as to be a literary process that is basic for the expression of the reality in the compositional construction and illustration of the plot relying on the writer’s intention and the ideological conception of the literary work. The literary time enables to cognate the literary world picture created by the author in terms of the descriptive subject and object of the work. Utkir Hoshimov’s “Between Two Doors”, Isajon Sultan’s “Eternal Gates”, and Ulugbek Hamdam’s “Rebellion and Humility” were selected as the object of the research. The article uses comparative-typological, structural and complex methods of analysis.