One of the renowned figures of Armenian literature, Kostanm Zaryan (1885-1969) wrote several books and a single book of poetry, Oreri Bsage (The Crown of Days).
The book was published in 1922 and stood out for its unique language structures and portrayals of acts and descriptions through unorthodox combinations of incongruous or incompatible words. At a later stage Zaryan republished the volume after thoroughly rewriting most of the poems, which still maintain an aesthetic and perceptual value
The The article analyses the language and style of Zaryan's poetry, focusing on the epithets, comparisons, repetitions and contrapositions which he used abundantly. author argues that the use of these stylistic techniques enriched the poems with extraordinary expressions, charged them with emotions, and displayed the deep sensitivity of the author.
"The paper highlights the main themes and moods of Armenian poetry and poets at the crossroads of the Soviet and independence era of the Republic of Armenia.
The author focuses mainly on Ludwig Duryan, Armen Martirosyan, Hovhannes Grigoryan, Hrachya Sarukhan, Hrachya Tamrazyan, and Artak Hambardzumyan, who were inspire...
Hovhannes Toumanian's letters cover diverse aspects of literary arts and criticism, form vs. content, characters, linguistic tricks, his views on different authors, his approaches and understanding of different genres of literature, the messages he conveys, etc. This paper, however, highlights the literary and theoreti...
Igna Sariaslan's poetry is remarkable in both modern Istanbul Armenian and contemporary Armenian literature.
In his poetry books, namely Lo (1974), Karasempag Serov (With Quadrupled Love, 1994), Siro Kuyne (Color of Love, 1998) and Tebi Horizon (To the Horizon, 2016), Sariaslan draws, on the one hand, on the poetic tra...
The article draws attention to documents in the archive of Catholicos Megerditch Khrimian, which are preserved in the Mesrop Mashtots Matenadaran Armenian Institute of Old Manuscripts. The paper highlights particularly a number of documents which attest the harsh conditions of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire in the lat...
In the context of Armenian reality, the origin and manifestations of rock music have not been studied at all in the academic field, while the presence of Armenians in world rock culture and the localization of rock in Armenia are very interesting and significant and are worth studying. This series of articles consists...
The article discusses the symbol of the carpet by observation of Armenian and world literary samples in the sphere of interdisciplinary connections. The issue is illustrated by the juxtaposition of parallels of carpet-text, world-text, carpet-space, life-pattern, pattern-code, text-history-story, carpet-biography-famil...
