Abstract
NINETEEN STATES OF LOVE: AN EVALUATION ON MOTIF OF “FALLING IN LOVE” IN ANATOLIAN TALES
A fairy tale is a genre that contains information on different issues such as oral culture, belief structure and traditions. In this respect studies have been conducted depending on both the text and context-centered theories. In these studies, it is seen that the motif of love in the fairy tales is handled under many titles. As a result of the readings we made, it has been found that this motif takes place in Anatolian tales in different forms, so a study on this subject has been done by means of text analysis method. In this study, it was aimed to determine how many different kinds of motifs of love in Anatolian tales were employed and put them together with their examples. 1234 story texts compiled from Anatolian’s 21 different locations have been scanned. As a result of the scanning, nineteen forms have been identified. Firstly, after giving a general information about the motifs of love and falling in love in the fairy tales, the identified motifs of falling in love were explained together with the examples.
Keywords
Tale, historical-geographical Fin method, motif, the motif of falling in love, Anatolian.