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A Turkish Folktale: The Art of Behet Mahir

A Turkish Folktale: The Art of Behet Mahir

Walker, Warren S.
Lindahl, Carl

Paperback

Series: World Folktale Library, Book 4

Literary CriticismAnthropologyMythology & Folklore

ISBN10: 1138986240
ISBN13: 9781138986244
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jul 21 2016
Pages: 166
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.35 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
First published in 1996. A ten-hour tale, long enough to fill a night in the telling, artful enough to keep all its listeners eagerly awake: such marathon narratives constitute a recurrent theme found in folktales worldwide. This entire book records, annotates and interprets one such rare performance, by Behcet Mahir. a man who joins great storytellers whose art has survived their deaths and transcended their native communities to become the shared heritage of a worldwide audience of lovers of oral tales.

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