Explain genre and form features of minstrel literature.
Interpret the tradition of minstrelsy.
Categorize important minstrels by centuries.
Mode of Delivery
Face to face
Prerequisites
No
Recommended Optional Programme Components
Course Description
Within this course, starting from ashik-bakshy tradition, students will be familiarized to the concept of minstrelsy throughout development in the historical background, as elaborating the terminological concepts of the minstrel tradition, types and form features, themes, language and rhetoric concepts will also be discussed. The characteristics of the period will be introduced by way of sample texts from nominee ashiks selected in chronological orde
Course Contents
WEEK
TOPICS
1st Week
The rise of Minstrel Literature in Anatolia
2nd Week
Development of Minstrel Literature in Anatolia
3rd Week
Style and genre
4th Week
Koşma
5th Week
Semai, varsağı
6th Week
Poems in aruz
7th Week
Divan, selis, semai, kalenderi
8th Week
Midterm
9th Week
Karacaoğlan
10th Week
Köroğlu
11th Week
Bayburtlu Zihni
12th Week
Dadaloğlu
13th Week
Aşık Veysel
14th Week
Contemporary folk poetry
15th Week
General review
Recommended or Required Reading
Artun, Erman, Aşıklık Geleneği ve Aşık Edebiyatı. Ankara: Akçağ Yayınları, 2001.
Çobanoğlu, Özkul. Aşık Tarzı Kültür Geleneği ve Destan Türü, Ank. Akçağ Yayınları, 2000.
Günay, Umay. Aşık Tarzı Şiir Geleneği ve Rüya Motifi. Ankara: Atatürk Kültür Merkezi Yayınları, 1986.
Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
Lecture
Discussion
Questions/Answers
Presentation
Other
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Quantity
Percentage (%)
Mid-term
1
30
Assignment
1
10
Attendance
1
10
Total(%)
50
Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%)
50
Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%)
