Nigâr bint-i ‗Osman (1862-1918) is the first female poet, who was influenced by movements of Western literature such as Romanticism and Sentimentalism. Poems of Nigâr Hanım were mostly analysed in the light of the aesthetic ...

Between folk tales and society there exists a complex relationship, the nature of which is understood in different ways from one dicipline to another. Furthermore, the apparent relationship of folk tales to society shifts ...

The Critique of Gender in Murathan Mungan’s Modern Tales Murathan Mungan (b. 1955), a prominent Turkish author of the late twentieth century, analyzes and interprets legends, myths, folk tales, and cultural archetypes ...