With modernization, the proverbs undertaking the mission of cultural transfer in the structure of traditional society have undertaken the function of expressing rapidly changing cultural values by maintaining their structural ...

As an orality product, proverbs, keep its continuity in the written culture as well. But it is possible to say that a process of reproduction puts the preserved patterns of proverbs into modern city folklore. This study ...

Yeraltı Edebiyatı genel özellikleriyle kendini toplumsal iktidarın merkezlerinin dışında, ortalama olanher şeye karşı bir duruşla ve bunun ötesinde toplumsal yapı tarafından dışta bırakılmışları kahramanlaştırarakkuran bir ...

This article aims to emphasize the aesthetical characteristics of Tiflî Efendi stories which are considered as a kind of meddah stories and analyze Tiflî Efendi stories as an original text. Characters, their features, ...

As one of the longest-lived community center monthlies, Konya is important for its notion of "folk literature". While managing to formulate this notion theoretically upon a foundation of realism, the periodical encountered ...

In this study, Orhan Pamuk's "The Black Book" was analyzed in relation to intertextuality theories by using Hilmi Yavuz and Kubilay Aktulum's works. Relation between the "cut-head motif," which is one of the main themes ...

We will discuss two chaining tales taken from a folk narrative performance st arting with a playful formula and including eight tales. These two tales, which have structural and functional similarities, will be examined ...

In line with Alan Dundes' definition of "folk" as a group of people sharing some common code, this paper looks into how Türkleri Anlama Kilavuzu (A Guide to Understanding Turks) written by Zeki Kayahan Coşkun (İstanbul: ...

This paper, examines the features of the doctor jokes and questiones if the doctor jokes can be considered as a "genre". It is seen that doctor jokes has been formed in daily language but not in medical jargon. Subjects ...

It is quite important to focus on the relation between literal works and oral works of communities in order to understand and define patterns and structures of contemporary literary works. Historical novels make it easy ...