Browsing by Subject "Storyteller"

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An essay about the relationship between media and folk stories
(2011) Çoban Başer, S.
The studies, which are put forward to consider the relationship between media and folklore, investigate mostly whether media is fully equipped by folkloric elements (or not) and whether these elements are presented in a modernized favor by media (or not). They examine this problem as a culture transfer, yet they miss out the reasons of the impossibility of such a relationship and cannot build a critic of media by considering this impossibility. Because the belief that media uses folklore by modernizing and making suitable for itself is quite common not only in folklore, but also in media studies. In this regard, the claim that folklore is continuing its life by means of media and the only change is about the forms of using folklore is also a common assertion. On the other side, the prejudice based on that media uses folklore effects the discussion environment, and accordingly the layers of the folklore structure used by media are questioned in positive or negative points of view. This study aims to demonstrate that two main actors of the folklore course, folk stories and storytellers cannot be put analyzed in the frame of media. With the claim that folk stories and storytellers cannot be absorbed in the mechanism of media, another dimension of this discussion is about the misleadings, which argue that media and folklore are combined.
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An "Oh Baba" adventure
(2005) Gülen, B.B.
How can one find an adept storyteller telling an attractive fairy tale as part of living folkore? After relating the adventure of discovering a living story teller and an old tale, this article will also discuss the storyteller's use of digression, which is employed to help the listeners follow the main plot of the tale. Also included is an examination of the different categories of digression such as didactic, critical and admission, used during the telling of the fairy tale "Oh Baba".
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Old Wines in the "New Bottles": Ekmek Teknesi, a series telling folk tales
(2005) Demirkol, N.
This article aims to analyze the usage of oral culture in the era of electronic mass communication. Water J. Ong's "primary oral culture" and "secondary oral culture" terms was the basis of this study. In this frame a television series, called Ekmek Teknesi which is chosen as a representative of secondary oral culture, characteristics and functions of folk tales and storyteller are compared and contrasted. The result of this comparison lead us to the conclusion that not only outstanding character of the series Heredot Cevdet the storyteller but the series, itself, has the characteristics and functions of a folk tale similar to the ones in the primary oral culture. This article claims that Turkish society which has still got most of the characteristics of a primary oral culture society and which has not exactly adapted to the urban life yet, need a story teller to remind its "old traditions". As a result, one of the products of secondary oral literature, Ekmek Teknesi, meets this need of the society.
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The text controlling the narration
(2002) Korkmaz, G. Ezgi
In this paper the interview made with the narrator on May 12, 2002 at Bilkent University and the texts collected during this interview are interpreted in terms of the factors affecting the performance during the recreation process. The data related to the interview and the texts collected are examined for the influence of the narrator's and the collector's social status and education levels on the performance. The transformation of the products of oral culture today, especially the effect of written culture on oral culture are also analyzed.