Ronald B. Tobias’ın Kurgu Teorisi Bağlamında Sarı Saltık’ın Kaf Dağı Seferi

Abstract

Saltık-nâme is a text describing the adventures of the hero, who is known by different names (such as Sarı Saltık, Hızır, Şerif, Server) and who led the people with his religious and military characteristics during the Turkification of Anatolia and the Balkans. Saltik Gazi Epic has been published many times by different researchers under the name of Saltıknâme. While there were missing chapters and pages in the previous publications, the relatively recent copy in Necati Demir's personal library has a complete beginning and end. According to this copy (ND), the work consists of 3 volumes and 42 chapters. Saltık-nâme, one of the literary texts of Turkish Folk Literature that depends on the principle of narration, has a rich content that includes the features of different narrative genres. In Saltık-nâme, it is possible to find the features of the myth, romance and novel genres of Western literature, as well as the features of literary genres such as legends, tales, epics, menakibnames and folk tales belonging to the old periods of Turkish Literature. In this study, the fictional structure of the fable-like episode "Sayyid Sharif's Going to Mount Kaf" was examined, and examples from the text were given by taking 20 basic fiction-type scales that Ronald B. Tobias stated in his book "The Art of Writing Novels". In the study, sampling and comparison method was used. In the conclusion part, it is proposed to carry out studies similar to the "Death of King Arthur" narrative according to the findings. Keywords: Saltık-nâme, Sarı Saltık, Mount Kaf, Narrative, Epic, Tale, Ronald B. Tobias, Fiction