HUMOUR ABOUT PHYSICAL PROPERTIES IN CLASSICAL TURKISH LITERATURE’S MASNAWIS Cover Image

KLASİK TÜRK EDEBİYATI MESNEVİLERİNDE FİZİKSEL ÖZELLİKLERİN MİZAHI
HUMOUR ABOUT PHYSICAL PROPERTIES IN CLASSICAL TURKISH LITERATURE’S MASNAWIS

Author(s): Gökçehan Aysel Yılmaz
Subject(s): Turkish Literature, Theory of Literature, Turkic languages
Published by: Motif Halk Oyunları Eğitim ve Öğretim Vakfı
Keywords: Classical Turkish Literature; masnawi; humour; satire; physical properties;

Summary/Abstract: Descriptions have a place in usage of Classical Turkish Literature. A major part in these descriptions are physical and psychological properties of people. Tutmacı’s Gül ü Hüsrev in XIVth century, Şeyhî’s Husrev u Şîrîn and Tâcî-zâde Cafer Çelebi’s Heves-nâme in XVth century, Taşlıcalı Yahyâ’s Usûl-nâme and Lâmi’î’s Vîs ü Râmîn in XVIth century, Nâbî’s Hayr-âbâd, Nev’îzâde Atâyî’s Nefhatü’l-ezhâr, Güftî’s Teşrîfâtü’ş-şu’arâ in XVIIth century, Sünbül-zâde Vehbî’s Şevk-engîz and Lutfiyye-i Vehbî, Şeyh Gâlib’s Hüsn ü Aşk and Enderunlu Fâzıl’s Zenân-nâme in XVIIIth century, Aynî’s Sâkî-nâme, Keçeci-zâde İzzet Molla’s Mihnet-keşân, Yenişehirli Avnî’s Mir’ât-ı Cünûn and Bayburtlu Zihnî’s Sergüzeşt-nâme-i Zihnî in XIXth century have descriptions in couplets, which are humourous and mordacious wording about women and men in different parts of society. Poets have creating these couplet’s humourous theme with associating to animals, like dogs, pigs, donkeys, elephants, moles, monkeys and exaggerating people’s frightening, ugliness, deformities physical properties. These couplets, which are about physical properties, will be analyzed with sort by its issue, such as face, skin, mouth, jaw, lips, teeth, nose, hair, eyes, eye brows, eyelash, chest, short stature, hump, ears, malodor, hands, fingers, ugliness, dirtiness in this study.

  • Issue Year: 13/2020
  • Issue No: 30
  • Page Range: 827-847
  • Page Count: 21
  • Language: Turkish
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