AŞK MESNEVİLERİNDE OYUN VE EĞLENCENİN KURGUSAL İŞLEVİ
THE FICTIONAL FUNCTION OF GAME AND FUN IN LOVE MATHNAWIS

Summary/Abstract: In love Masnavi, Heroes generally meet and fall in love with someone in a fun environment or during hunting. In this Masnavies, fun and games are included in case of heroes meeting their lovers, gaining their lovers and celebrating it after they broke up, and giving a banquet in honor of guests or in situation of getting married. Celebrations mostly consists of libation assembly (e.g. alcohol-music, singer, dancer, cupbearer and banquet assemblies), hunting, and some games (e.g. guy u çevgan oyunu, chess, gammon, hand game, and ring and celabration games). Games and celabrations are generally seen as an important part of love mesnavies. In mesnavies, poets employs games and celabrations as a source of casuality while they build events. Sometimes, poets relate games and celabrations with world life in order to provide religious- didactic suggestions. Games and celabrations are designed based on the squence related to people’ status and progress of events within appropriate context. In this way, heroes and their earthly characters and related behaviours became integrated with context. Celabration factors are fictionalised based on starting point of a new event or celabrating happinesses of past events.

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