Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. A Note on the Transliteration vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. INTRODUCTION 1
6. PART ONE / “The Seal of Silence”
7. 1. Variants and Facets of the Literary Erection 15
8. 2. Abovean and the Birth of the Native 36
9. 3. Orientalism and Neo-Archeology 66
10. PART TWO / Daniel Varuzhan: The End of Religion
11. 4. The Disaster of the Native 109
12. 5. The Other Scene of Representation 133
13. 6. Erection and Self-Sacrifice 149
14. 7. The Mourning of Religion I 171
15. 8. The Mourning of Religion II 196
16. EPILOGUE: Nietzsche in Armenian Literature at the Turn of the Twentieth Century 219
17. Appendices: Translations
18. A. Excerpts from Nineteenth-Century Works of Philology and Ethnography 241
19. B. Essays in Mehyan and Other Writings of Constant Zarian 265
20. C. Daniel Varuzhan: Poems and Prose 301
21. Notes 329
22. Bibliography 387
23. Index 401