TY - BOOK AU - Nichanian,Marc AU - Fort,Jeff AU - Goshgarian,G.M. TI - Mourning Philology: Art and Religion at the Margins of the Ottoman Empire SN - 9780823255245 AV - PK8516 U1 - 891/.99209 23 PY - 2014///] CY - New York, NY : PB - Fordham University Press, KW - Armenian literature KW - 20th century KW - History and criticism KW - Art and literature KW - Armenia KW - Religion and literature KW - Goshgarian KW - History KW - Literary Studies KW - Philosophy & Theory KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / General KW - bisacsh KW - Mythological religion KW - Nationalism KW - Orientalism KW - Ottoman empire KW - Philology KW - Philosophy of art N1 - 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; restricted access N2 - “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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823255269?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823255269 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780823255269/original ER -