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Mourning Philology
ISBN: 9780823255269
Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / Fordham University Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters
Subjects: Religion and literature; Art and literature; Armenian literature;

This book offers a monograph on the work of the Armenian poet Daniel Varuzhan (1884-1915), preceded by a general account of how Armenian national philology unfolded in the 19th century, under the influence of European orientalist philology and its two main inventions: the native and mythological religion.

Marc Nichanian was Professor of Armenian Studies at Columbia University from 1996 to 2007 and is currently Visiting Professor at Sabanci University, Istanbul, in the Department of Cultural Studies. His publications in English include The Historiographic Perversion and Writers of Disaster.Goshgarian G. M. :

G.M. Goshgarian has translated from the Armenian the first part of Hagop Oshagan's epic novel Remnants, which won a PEN translation award in 2009 and the translations in Marc Nichanian's Writers of Disaster.Fort Jeff :

Jeff Fort is Associate Professor of French at the University of California, Davis, and the translator of more than a dozen books, by Jean Genet, Jacques Derrida, Maurice Blanchot, Jean-Luc Nancy, and others.