TRADITION OF TURKISH EPICS (IN THE BASIS OF KUMUK EPICS) Cover Image

(KUMUK DESTANLARININ TEMELİNDE) TÜRK DESTANLARININ GELENEĞİ
TRADITION OF TURKISH EPICS (IN THE BASIS OF KUMUK EPICS)

Author(s): Tomay Ramazan Hasanoğlu
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Literary Texts, Customs / Folklore, Studies of Literature, Turkish Literature, Sociology of Culture, Sociology of the arts, business, education
Published by: Sage Yayınları
Keywords: Kumuk epics; epics creativity; tradition of Turkish epics; heroic and love epics;

Summary/Abstract: Kumuk epics has a rich base not only from the side of quantity, but also quality. Works on Kumuk epic creativity is distinguished by possibility of a wide range of clarification of functional character, typological character, and as a whole specificity of epics. Formulas, epic schemes, development of its tendency of the structure of epics are of crucial importance in order to follow development of Turkish epic creativity. Therefore, research on Turkish epic creativity in different ways seems as one of the significant problems of folk of Turkish people.

  • Issue Year: 8/2016
  • Issue No: 29
  • Page Range: 86-90
  • Page Count: 5
  • Language: English