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Mourning Philology - Art and Religion at the Margins of the Ottoman Empire (Hardcover, New)
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Mourning Philology - Art and Religion at the Margins of the Ottoman Empire (Hardcover, New)
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"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 the 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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