Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies

Alice Walker’s iconic short story “The Flowers” stands as a clear example of flash fiction’s unique potential to compress immense thematic, emotional, and historical weight into minimal narrative space. In less than six hundred words, Walker skillfully navigates the reader through a striking tonal transformation, begi…

Alice Walker’s iconic short story “The Flowers” stands as a clear example of flash fiction’s unique potential to compress immense thematic, emotional, and historical weight into minimal narrative space. In less than six hundred words, Walker skillfully navigates the reader through a striking tonal transformation, begi…

This study examines anti-woke humor shared through internet memes in debates around woke culture. The analysis draws on a qualitative dataset of approximately 700 memes posted between 2024 and 2025. Using thematic analysis, the study looks at how these memes take part in ideological conflicts online. The findings indi…

In this qualitative study, the social norms, moral values, behavioral patterns, and gender stereotypes reflected in fairy tales written by fourth-grade primary school students were examined using document analysis. The study group consisted of 37 students (22 girls and 15 boys) from primary schools in three central di…

Marriage is celebrated with a wedding, recognized as legitimate by society while institutionally build-ing the foundation of the family. In these celebrations, the testing of the bride, groom, and family in various ways turns into wedding festivities. The küyaw taladı ritual of the Old Ikan Uzbeks of Turkestan, Kazakh…

The Turkic world consists of various Turkic states spread over a wide geographical area, as well as Turkic groups with autonomous status or minority populations within different countries across the continents of Asia and Europe. It is also possible to include many neighboring societies that have long-term relations a…

Children’s literature extends far beyond a mere genre addressed to young readers; it plays a decisive role in the individual’s process of making sense of the world, internalising cultural codes, constructing identity and encountering social values. In recent years, children’s literature research has gained an interdic…

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This article examines Peter Ackroyd’s The English Ghost (2010) as a significant cultural archive gathering ghost stories that emerged over a broad time span, from the Anglo-Saxon period to the present day. Ackroyd compiles this collection by synthesizing accounts from diverse origins, ranging from newspapers, memoirs,…

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This study examines how Michelin-starred chefs represent themselves in digital environments and what culinary persona types they construct through these representations.The research is structured within the framework of Goffman's (1959) theory of self-presentation, Johnston et al.'s (2014) Culinary Persona typology, a…

In classic fairy tales, which function as powerful cultural narratives, it is gender that determines the lifestyles and activities of the characters; while heroic male characters are more active and mostly described as fighters or rescuers, females are more passive ones who are generally beautiful victims dependent on…