Lesson plan / FOLK LITERATURE-IV

Lesson Information

Course Credit 2.0
Course ECTS Credit 4.0
Teaching Language of Instruction Türkçe
Level of Course Bachelor's Degree, TYYÇ: Level 6, EQF-LLL: Level 6, QF-EHEA: First Cycle
Type of Course Compulsory
Mode of Delivery Face-to-face
Does the course require compulsory or optional work experience? Z
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Purpose and Content

The aim of the course The aim of this course is to introduce Public Theatre and Public Humor within the traditional understanding of humor through various texts, discuss traditional folk culture from basic plays to modern theatre, bring in the ability to produce a compilation.
Course Content Humor genre, differences between public humor and local humor, public storytellers, toy theatre, light comedy, features of Improvisational theatre and country theatre and also riddles, proverbs and idioms are studied in this course.

Weekly Course Subjects

1Folk Humor (comic), public humor, Humor types
2Folk Theater in general and the origins of it
3Encomiastic (meddah) tradition; the origins of encomiast (meddah) and its place in society
4Historical information about the origin of shadow game
5Shadow play and performance; types, characters and transcribed text
6Theatre-in-the-round (light comedy); historical information about their origins
7Theatre-in-the-round (light comedy); types, characters, texts of shadow puppet theatre
8Reflection of Improvisational theatre to the present
9Midterm Exam
10Reflection of "country theatre" to the present
11Folk Literature from tradition to the future
12Research on compilation works in the field
13Compilation studies
14Compilation studies

Resources

1. Prof. Dr. Şükrü Elçin, Halk Edebiyatına Giriş, Akçağ Yay, 9. Bs, Ankara 2005
2. Prof. Dr. M. Öcal Oğuz ve diğerleri, Türk Halk Edebiyatı El Kitabı, 7. Bs, Ank 2010