Examining the Fantasy Turkish Comics Tarkan and Kara Murat with a Stylistic Approach Cover Image

Fantastik Türk Çizgi Romanları Tarkan ve Kara Murat’ın Biçimsel Yaklaşım ile İncelenmesi
Examining the Fantasy Turkish Comics Tarkan and Kara Murat with a Stylistic Approach

Author(s): Sevtap SARICA
Subject(s): Cultural history, Visual Arts, Turkish Literature, Theory of Literature, Stylistics
Published by: SD Yayınevi
Keywords: Tarkan; Kara Murat; comics; structuralist; Propp;

Summary/Abstract: In this study, Turkish historical comics and historical costume adventure films adapted from these comics will be examined formally from a structuralist perspective. The physical and personal characteristics and identity formations of Tarkan and Kara Murat characters and how concepts such as nationality, the other, love and religion are formally handled in the works will be examined. It will be revealed whether these works, which are a reflection of the Turkish cultural history to be taken with the structuralist perspective, which is one of the many examination methods applied on different eternal genres, and Propp's fairy tale analysis method, continue to have the formal structure of fairy tales in the process of becoming audiovisual works from oral literature. is intended.

  • Issue Year: 7/2023
  • Issue No: 32
  • Page Range: 263-294
  • Page Count: 32
  • Language: Turkish