Başgöz, İlhan

İlhan Başgöz was a folklorist, author, and professor whose scholarship connected Turkish oral tradition with performance, education, and social history. Hikâye: Turkish Folk Romance as Performance Art places storytelling in performance, showing why voice, audience, and setting matter beside the narrative. I, Hoca Nasreddin, Never Shall I Die: A Thematic Analysis of Hoca Stories follows another tradition through the changing meanings attached to its central figure.

Educational Problems in Turkey, 1920-1940 turns to the institutions and debates of the early republican period, broadening the view beyond folklore. Studies in Turkish Folklore, in Honor of Pertev N. Boratav situates Başgöz within a larger scholarly lineage. Hikâye: Turkish Folk Romance as Performance Art offers the most direct encounter with his method; pairing it with Educational Problems in Turkey, 1920-1940 shows how closely he read cultural expression and public life.