Mourning philology : art and religion at the margins of the Ottoman Empire / Marc Nichanian ; translated by G. M. Goshgarian and Jeff Fort.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nichanian, Marc, 1946-

Contributor:

Fort, Jeff, 1966-

Goshgarian, G. M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Varuzhan, Daniēl, 1884-1915--Criticism and interpretation.

Varuzhan, Daniēl.

Armenian literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Armenian literature.

Art and literature--Armenia.

Art and literature.

Religion and literature--Armenia.

Religion and literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (420 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Pagan life seduces me a little more with each passing day. If it were possible today, I would change my religion and would joyfully embrace poetic paganism," wrote the Armenian poet Daniel Varuzhan in 1908. During the seven years that remained in his life, he wrote largely in this "pagan" vein. If it was an artistic endeavour, why then should art be defined in reference to religion? And which religion precisely? Was Varuzhan echoing Schelling's Philosophy of Art?Mourning Philology draws on Varuzhan and his work to present a history of the national imagination, which is also a history of national philology, as a reaction to the two main philological inventions of the nineteenth century: mythological religion and the native. In its first part, the book thus gives an account of the successive stages of orientalist philology. The last episode in this story of national emergence took place in 1914 in Constantinople, when the literary journal Mehyan gathered around Varuzhan the great names to come of Armenian literature in the diaspora

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

A Note on the Transliteration

Acknowledgments

INTRODUCTION

1. Variants and Facets of the Literary Erection

2. Abovean and the Birth of the Native

3. Orientalism and Neo-Archeology

4. The Disaster of the Native

5. The Other Scene of Representation

6. Erection and Self-Sacrifice

7. The Mourning of Religion I

8. The Mourning of Religion II

EPILOGUE: Nietzsche in Armenian Literature at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

A. Excerpts from Nineteenth-Century Works of Philology and Ethnography

B. Essays in Mehyan and Other Writings of Constant Zarian

C. Daniel Varuzhan: Poems and Prose

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-8232-5526-3

0-8232-6127-1

0-8232-5527-1

OCLC:

868223137