Principles of Artistic Text Analysis

This article is devoted to the concept of intertextuality, various definitions given to them, principles of artistic text analysis, and on the basis of these principles Tahir Malik’s work “Shaytanat” was taken as an example for artistic text analysis. Intertextuality, which is an integral part of texts, is considered an important linguistic tool in the formation and perception of artistic text. Since such fragments of text are already in the mind of the reader as a ready-made linguistic unit, it becomes easier to understand the artistic text with intertextuality, and the author’s artistic intention becomes more clear for the reader. Intertextuality is one of the main principlesin the text analysis and today it has become one of the research subjects of linguistics and literary studies. In the article, some scientists’ researches and analysis methods were also commented on.