SUBJECT DETAIL IN THE WORKS OF CHARLES DICKENS AND GAFUR GULAM: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF SOCIAL REALISM AND AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL ELEMENTS
This scientific article provides a comprehensive comparative analysis of the “matters of subject detail” - the meticulous, multisensory, and hyper-realistic rendering of social environments, psychological states, everyday realities, poverty, orphanhood, and institutional injustice - in the selected works of Charles Dickens (1812–1870) and Gafur Gulam (Gafur Gulom, 1903–1966). Dickens’s panoramic urban realism exposes Victorian industrial capitalism through sensory accumulation, grotesque satire, and institutional topography. Gulam’s folk-infused autobiographical prose deploys humor, colloquial dialogue, proverbs, and intimate domestic detail to critique pre-revolutionary and Soviet-era Uzbek society.
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