The Issue Of Intertextuality In Modern North Caucasian Russian-Language Prose

The aim of the research is studying the problem of interpretation of small forms of Russian-language North Caucasian prose from the point of view of manifestation of intertextual elements in it. Methods. Comparative-typological, theoretical-textual. Results. Without a comprehensive study of the genesis, development and existence of the text at the present stage it is impossible to draw a complete picture of the system of North Caucasian literature of this period. Conclusions. The modern literary critics felt the acute need for studying the journalistic and literary texts of the North-Caucasian literature of the 20th – the beginning of the 21st centuries from the point of view of the major principles of postmodernist aesthetics in a broad sense: ethnic and cultural signs, archetypes, concepts, and symbols, as there is the known controversy between supporters and opponents of the comparative-historical and structuralist schools of the literary criticism.