@article{1477607,
      recid = {1477607},
      author = {Nichanian, Marc,  and Fort, Jeff,  and Goshgarian, G. M.,  },
      title = {Mourning Philology : Art and Religion at the Margins of  the Ottoman Empire /},
      pages = {1 online resource (420 p.)},
      abstract = {"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},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1477607},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823255269},
}