Turkish Folktale - The Art of Behet Mahir

Zusatztext "...fascinating..." -- Turkish Studies Association Bulletin Informationen zum Autor Warren S. Walker Klappentext First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Zusammenfassung First published in 1996. A ten-hour tale, long enough to fill a night in the telling, artful enough to keep all its listeners eagerly awake: such marathon narratives constitute a recurrent theme found in folktales worldwide. This entire book records, annotates and interprets one such rare performance, by Behcet Mahir. a man who joins great storytellers whose art has survived their deaths and transcended their native communities to become the shared heritage of a worldwide audience of lovers of oral tales. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part 1 The Legend of Hamzai Sahip Kiran; Chapter 1 First night; narration of January 9, 1977; Chapter 2 Second night; narration of January 10, 1977; Chapter 3 Third night; narration of January 11, 1977; Chapter 4 Fourth night; narration of January 12, 1977; Chapter 5 Fifth night; narration of January 13, 1977;

Product details

• Authors: Warren S. Lindahl Walker
• Assisted by: Carl Lindahl (Editor), Warren S Walker (Editor), Warren S. Walker (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.1996
• EAN: 9780815323662
• ISBN: 978-0-8153-2366-2
• No. of pages: 164
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore