Common Elements in the Legend Alageyik and Kocacaş Epics Cover Image

Alageyik Efsanesi ile Kocacaş Destanında Ortak Unsurlar
Common Elements in the Legend Alageyik and Kocacaş Epics

Author(s): Şule Gezer
Subject(s): Comparative Study of Literature, Turkish Literature, Sociology of Culture, Theory of Literature
Published by: Uluslararası Kıbrıs Üniversitesi
Keywords: Comparative Literature; Intertextuality; Legends;

Summary/Abstract: Literature from the past up to the present day from the value judgments of the society, the perception of life and their beliefs in their world hosts the content. In this regard, literature is a tool that enables the transfer of Culture. That belong to the past period, a belief, a way of life, sometimes when it is transferred to the current social environment is repeated. In this case, literary narratives, as a literary production have been associated with the old content, and carry traces of them. These texts provides the transition between the collective consciousness of a nation that is under the transfer of intellectual values caused by an organic bond. This bond that exists in modern culture as renewed in the past through a narrative similar occurs again. In addition, has a common background and the same culture at different times in different regions from each other, brothers who are members of communities of faith bearing the same motifs and similar elements of narratives can reveal. In this study, a common history and culture, Turkish culture, with the two brothers belonging to the community two of the common motif of narrative texts. will be evaluated in terms of. One dimension of this narrative that carries the legend of a folk literary narrative of Yaşar Kemal entitled The fallow deer, and the other that belongs to the Kyrgyz Turks and Kococas that are present in the oral environment is epic. Beliefs that the Turks belong to the period of hunting and gathering, which is located in the center of this narrative, this period featured in the deer/is centered around the cult of the loser. In this context, narratives and motifs that are common to both episodes have been identified. This partnership in which both of Turkish tribes in the cultural sense, born from the same source, the same culture in different geographies of the phenomena that they are.

  • Issue Year: 23/2017
  • Issue No: 89
  • Page Range: 11-29
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Turkish