Worldview and Ideological Tendencies of the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries in Armenian Literary Criticism

Authors

  • Yeva MNATSAKANYAN National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24234/wisdom.v19i3.541

Keywords:

social-political currents , literary criticism , worldwide contemplation, history of philosophy, ideology, Hovhannes Toumanyan

Abstract

The article presents the ideological and worldview tendencies in Armenian reality in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and their influence on the literary criticism of the time. Firstly, the article focuses on the social-political situation that influences the formation of social-political ideologies, then the approaches of representatives of various directions on different spheres of life. The study also discusses the influence of these currents on the formation of the views of the literary critics of the time.

As an obvious example of a literary work that was exposed to diverse literary criticism, some pieces of critical reviews on the poem “Loretsi Sako” by H. Toumanyan are presented. These reviews prove that artistic and philosophical approaches of the social-political currents of the time serve as the basis of subjective evaluations carried out by literary critics.

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Author Biography

Yeva MNATSAKANYAN, National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia

(PhD in Philology) is Lecturer and Research Assistant at the Chair of Mother Tongue and its Teaching Methodology at ASPU, and Senior Researcher at the Institute of Literature of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia. The scope of her scientific interests includes Armenian literary criticism and theory, contemporary Armenian, studies of Toumanyan’s life and work. Mnatsakanyan is the author of 2 monographs, 2 guidebooks. She has co-authored 4 book sets on Toumanyan’s life and work chronology, and 70 scientific articles. Recent publications: “Toumanyan in the Appraisals of the contemporary literary criticism” (anthology).

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Published

2021-09-25

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MNATSAKANYAN, Y. (2021). Worldview and Ideological Tendencies of the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries in Armenian Literary Criticism. WISDOM, 19(3), 35–44. https://doi.org/10.24234/wisdom.v19i3.541

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