Variants and Facets of the Literary Erection
Variants and Facets of the Literary Erection
This chapter discusses the generation of Armenian writers gathered in Constantinople around the journal Mehyan in 1914. It shows how the national idea is reflected in the pages of the journal, emphasizing the connection between art and religion made in the launching Manifesto. Attending to the interpretation given after the facts by some of its proponents with regard to the strivings of that generation, the chapter describes how they imagined the project of “nationalizing the nation” as an operation of active reception and sublation of the popular productions, i.e. through their aestheticization. Finally, the antisemitic views expressed in the journal are referred to the logic of mythological religion invented by nineteenth-century philology.
Keywords: Aestheticization, Nationalism, Art and religion, Antisemitism
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