| Language of Instruction |
Türkçe |
| Course Type |
Area Elective Courses |
| Course Instructor(s) |
PROF. DR. ÇİĞDEM KARA |
| Mode of Delivery |
face to face |
| Prerequisites |
Students are obliged to attend the classes regularly, prepare the assigned homeworks, and read the mentioned resource books. In addition, students will be liable to analyze a different folk tale for each exam. |
| Courses Recomended |
sturcturalism and literary criticism |
| Recommended Reading List |
*Bengt Holbek (1998). Interpretation Of Fairy Tales: Danish Folklore in an European Perspective. Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemie; *Pertev Naili Boratav (2006). Zaman Zaman İçinde. Ankara: İmge; *Pertev Naili Boratav (2013). Az Gittik Uz Gittik. Ankara: İmge; *Pertev Naili Boratav (2000). Tekerleme. İstanbul: Tarih Vakfı Yurt Yayını. |
| Assessment methods and criteria |
midterm and final exam |
| Work Placement |
Not Applicable |
| Catalog Content |
Overview on type of folk tale: Language, telling, narrator, structure, content and functional properties; structural properties of folk tale: Epic rules, motifs, formulas and, the quality of tale characters; Tale type and type catalogues; Rigmarole and rigmarole classification; Theory and method of description and analysis of tale: Structuralism, Narrator-centered approach, Historic- geographic method. |