LITERARY AND PUBLICISTIC ANALYSIS OF THE "FEUILLETON CONTROVERSY" IN UZBEK JOURNALISM AND LITERATURE

This thesis examines the “feleton controversy” as a literary-publicistic phenomenon produced at the intersection of satirical poetics and public communication. The study aims to explain why the feleton often triggers conflictual reception and to analyze the expressive mechanisms that intensify public reactions. Methodologically, it combines close reading, discourse analysis, and genre theory. Scientific novelty lies in interpreting controversy not as an external accident but as an immanent effect of authorial strategies, audience expectations, and editorial-institutional mediation. The findings clarify how the feleton operates as social critique while negotiating boundaries of normativity, ethics, and communicative legitimacy.