Mourning Philology : : Art and Religion at the Margins of the Ottoman Empire /

Mourning Philology : : Art and Religion at the Margins of the Ottoman Empire / / Marc Nichanian.

“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...

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VerfasserIn:
Nichanian, Marc,
MitwirkendeR:
Fort, Jeff,
Goshgarian, G. M.,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (420 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • A Note on the Transliteration
  • Acknowledgments
  • INTRODUCTION
  • PART ONE / “The Seal of Silence”
  • 1. Variants and Facets of the Literary Erection
  • 2. Abovean and the Birth of the Native
  • 3. Orientalism and Neo-Archeology
  • PART TWO / Daniel Varuzhan: The End of Religion
  • 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
  • Appendices: Translations
  • 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

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