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

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

Nichanian, Marc
Goshgarian, G. M.
Fort, Jeff

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Literary CriticismGeneral Political Science

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ISBN10: 0823255247
ISBN13: 9780823255245
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: Feb 3 2014
Pages: 420
Weight: 1.55
Height: 1.30 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

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

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