Abstract: This article attempts to determine the peculiarities of compositional and semantic arrangement of text of the literary-criticism article by Shakir Selim “About Shamil Alyadin, Charyks and the Pocket Knife” in the context of its genre uniqueness. The article employs the approach of methodological pluralism using the key hermeneutical and a range of auxiliary methods. In analyzing the text, the author reviews the criteria of literary work, such as fabula, plotline, chronotope, author’s modality, etc., which allow revealing the peculiarities compositional and semantic arrangement Shakir Selim’s work. The relevance of this article is defined by the lack systematic research dedicated to compositional and semantic arrangement and genre diversity of the literary-criticism texts in the Crimean Tatar literature. The subject of this research is the compositional and semantic arrangement of text on the example of the literary work “About Shamil Alyadin, Charyks and the Pocket Knife”. The author describes the genre diversity alongside the elements of time and space presented in the article, as well as explores the author’s representations  and modality. This article is first to carry out a comprehensive analysis of the peculiarities of compositional and semantic arrangement and genre diversity of the S. Selim’s work “About Shamil Alyadin, Charyks and the Pocket Knife” by means of methodological pluralism in the aspect of various structural components of the composition and content of the text.

Abstract:  Based on the analysis of causality and reasonableness of arguments of such literary scholars as Shakir Selim and Shamil Alyadin, this article attempt to determine the ethnocultural code of the Crimean Tatar literary criticism. The author applies the approach of methodological pluralism, as well as hermeneutical, logical, historical-genetic, comparative-typological, phenomenological, and psychological methods. This allows considering various perspectives of the aforementioned literary scholars upon the variants of critical analysis of the artistic heritage of the classic of Crimean Tatar literature Memet Nuzet. The article outlines the basic principles of literary criticism, declared by Shakir Selim and Shamil Alyadin, as well as their dependence on the ethnocultural code of the Crimean Tatars. The scientific novelty of this research consists in the attempt of carrying out a comprehensive hermeneutical analysis of Shakir Selim’s literary-criticism work “About Shamil Alyadin, Charyks and the Pocket Knife” through the prism of methodological pluralism in the aspect of ethnocultural code. The author’s main contribution consists in the reflection of the “clash of opinions” of three literary critics – this is the critical article by Shakir Selim, based on the response of Pirae Kadri-Zade, written to Shamil Alyadin’s criticism essay on the poem composed by the classic of the Crimean Tatar literature Memet Nuzet.