Analysing classical Turkish literature prose stories in the context of modern narrative techniques

Literary texts have a polyphonic structure with multiple layers of meaning. Various methods such as analysis, commentary, hermeneutics, linguistics, intertextuality, etc. are applied to reach the world of meaning and structural features of these texts. Undoubtedly, each study contributes to revealing the value of these literary texts. Written from the 14th century to the 19th century and forming a tradition, prose narratives are also deep and qualified works. These narratives are suitable texts to be analysed due to their rich content and original form, as well as their inclusion of social structure and elements of Turkish-Islamic culture and civilisation. In this context, in this thesis, it is aimed to increase their value in the field of culture and science with the aim of updating the tradition by studying prose stories with modern methods. With this interdisciplinary study in which modern methods are applied to classical texts from a holistic point of view, it has been aimed to reach the structure, fiction, author's preferences, interaction of texts with each other and their development between centuries. For this purpose, three different methods, namely 'nominal structure (material elements)', 'narrative techniques' and 'intertextuality' were applied in the thesis. In this context, 45 works and 1436 inner stories from texts written between the 14th and 19th centuries with the mentioned techniques were analysed. The narratives have different fictional features, the same story is written differently by different authors, and there are many different narrative techniques.