This thesis is about the re-formation of folk narrative motifs in Behcet Necatigil’s poetry, famous for continuing the written and oral tradition, and is also about what happens in this process of intertextuality. Firstly, ...

In this study, we have investigated the story of Seven Sleepers or "Eshâbü'l Kehef" as it is usually called in oriental sources. Among holy books, it appears only in Koran, but it is mostly belongs to oral traditions. We ...