Abstract:

Mehmet Fuat Köprülü, genius in social sciences in terms of modest assessments, carried out so many impormant studies in the branch of Turkish folklore and folk literature within a interdisciplinar social scientific comprehension and execution, as well as most of his studies are in history. His greatest chance is the fortune that he has the every source and possibility in the era he lived and this fortune created the monumental works which could not been gone beyond yet. Before speaking of his studies on folk literature, it is possible to scrutinize his perception on this branch and point of view in two periods. In the first one, his point of view was critical and partially prejudicious. After this period, within the conditions of the era at issue, he standed closer to folk literature and folklore, in which folk literature is processed theorical. M. F. Köprülü dwelled on almost all the types which rests on wordy and narration in folk literature but while studying on these topics he avoided himself from just publishing texts and he tried to understand and evaluate the texts within the branches of history, sociology, economy, politics. In this study, first of all M. F. Köprülü’s point of view about the folk literature will be examined in terms of periods and then tried to explain the periods and types of folk literature by turns and lastly researcher’s folklore perception evaluated in the base of his understanding and application

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