Murat Sertoğlu's Novel Battal Gazi in connection with the relation of orality and literacy

Abstract

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 for researchers to define and reveal the relation. It is quite possible to find out this relation in Murat Sertoglu's novels. The novel called Battal Gazi, which is written as a first novel of serial novels, is suitable to examine the relation between the oral storyteller and the novelist. This essay is the result of a research of oral works' footsteps in literary works.