The Features of Descriptive Details in Literary Texts

Abstract

This article examines the expressive and narrative function of artistic and characterological detail in literary texts, focusing on works by Anton Chekhov and Uzbek authors such as H. Sultonov and Erkin Vohidov. The analysis shows how seemingly minor details –gestures, shifts in speech, symbolic objects, and spatial descriptions—serve to reveal deep emotional and psychological layers of character. Drawing on Chekhov’s “Sleepy,” “Fat and Thin,” and “The Chameleon,” as well as Vohidov’s poem “A Legend About Ignorance” and Sultonov’s short story “Yo Jamshid,” the study explores how details operate as subtle yet powerful devices of stylistic intensification, symbolic resonance, and character construction. The findings confirm that such details are not decorative, but structurally integral to the ideological, aesthetic, and psychological dimensions of the narrative.