From Epic Narration To Tale A Sample To Serious Transformation Of Main Texts: Bey Böyrek

Oral culture feeds written culture. When looked the people who left lasting works, it is understood that they benefit from tradition. These artists took as a subject oral culture works that related to tradition in their works, they handed down these works next generations. Oral texts are not frozen, invariable texts which tell only a term. Oral art texts enter an evolution without breaking up their relationships with texts which consisted previously. On one hand, oral texts interact with each other in matter and manner. On the other hand, the texts which have writers have impression on oral texts. A text that transmits another text and takes as a model that fiction, character and conflict there by regenerating enriches the text. Thus, connotation power of text increases, it reaches all-signifance ground that extends other texts. Inferior text is a text that is transmission of main text. This concept demonstrates the presence of other texts behind a text. Inferior text is a previous text. However, main text is a text that is produced from previous text during transformation process. The derivation process occurs as a simple transformation or indirect transformation. When main text is a read with inferior text in terms of various relations, its meaning becomes more understandable. Main text is related to past, this situation adds new meanings to the text. The reader attemps to game-like reading with main text. There are transformations that are carried out for entertaining and satire and also there are large-sized and serious transformations. Serious transformations are one of the main text structures that are applied large-sized works and covers a lot of transformation methods. In this work, many serious transformations are analysed in Bey Böyrek narration. By the reason of analyse, it is understood that main text Bey Böyrek narration is a form of inferior text Bamsı Beyrek narration which is seriously transformed and closed up to prose much more.

Keywords

Bey Böyrek, epic narration, tale, serious transformation.