BADIIY MATNDA SHAKL VA MAZMUN MUNOSABATI

This article examines the correlation between form and content in literary text, one of the oldest and still debated problems of literary theory. Drawing on the views of Eastern classical poetics as well as Russian and Western literary criticism, the article demonstrates that the unity of form and content is not a product of twentieth-century Western aesthetics alone, but has roots reaching back to the philosophical traditions of the Muslim East. The study compares literary and scientific text with regard to purpose, linguistic means, and logical structure, and shows how form serves as the vehicle through which the ideational-aesthetic content of a literary text is realized and perceived by the reader. It is concluded that the harmony between form and content determines the ontological and aesthetic value of a literary work, and that this correlation should be treated as an integrated object of analysis rather than two separate categories.