Here's - Center for Puppetry Arts

Basgöz, ·Ilhan
Turkish folklore and
oral literature:
selected essays of
·Ilhan Basgöz
PL229 .B37
1998 1998
introduced Turkish folklore to a
generation of American
folklorists who neither read nor
speak Turkish. He has taught
us about the great ancient
Turkish folk tradition as well as
about the recent changes in
the folklore of modern Turkish
society Through his scholarly
eyes we learnned about
storytellers in the coffee
houses, the riddles children
ask, and the proverbs the
older people cite. At the time
that we searched for new
theoretical directions in
folklore, he offered us in his
meticuolous scholarship the
necessary descriptive
foundations upon which to
build new approaches. He was
the real Turk among the
metaphorical "young Turks"
that sought new perspectives
for the discipline. I was
privledged to publish one of
Professor Basgoz articles "The
Tale-Singer and His Audience"
in a volume which I edited English Indiana University