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What is being done to Armenian monuments in Artsakh now is not new and it is not vandalism. Seda Parsamyan traces the demolition policy of the Hamidian massacres of the 1890s and puts the legal question directly: when a state sets out to erase a people's churches, at what point does that become cultural genocide? She works through how the concept has been defined, redefined and quietly narrowed by people who would rather it did not apply. The frame she builds is the one now being reached for over Artsakh.

Mass Destruction of Armenian Cultural Heritage during the Hamidian Massacres (1894-1896)

Parsamyan, Seda A. · 2023 · International Journal of Armenian Genocide Studies, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 5–34 (AGMI, Yerevan); DOI 10.51442/ijags.0043

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Աշխարհի առասպելաբանաստեղծական պատկերը Ավետիք Իսահակյանի պոեզիայում (The Mythopoetic Image of the World in the Poetry of Avetik Isahakyan)

Vardanyan, Nvard, 2026

Բանբեր Երևանի համալսարանի. Բանասիրություն / Bulletin of Yerevan University B: Philology, Vol. 17, No. 2(50), pp. 26–35; DOI 10.46991/BYSU.B/2026.17.2.026

Vardanyan treats the mythopoetic image of the world as a secondary elaboration of reality through sign systems anchored in archaic structures and archetypes. Because poetic speech is metaphorical, writers often draw unwittingly on the universal sign systems of folk thought and generate new ones from them. Isahakyan's lyric poetry has been analysed repeatedly for its ideological and thematic layers, but this study starts elsewhere: it traces symbolic representations in Isahakyan's picture of the world back to their mythic origins, working through his treatments of man and the cosmos, space and time, sound and silence.

Armenian literature Avetik Isahakyan mythopoetics folklore and literature literary criticism

Armenian

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Կոմիտասն իր նամակների հայելիում (Komitas in the Mirror of His Letters)

Mnatsakanyan, Yeva, 2025

Բանբեր Երևանի համալսարանի. Բանասիրություն / Bulletin of Yerevan University B: Philology, Vol. 16, No. 3(48), pp. 21–34 (Yerevan State University Press); DOI 10.46991/BYSU.B/2025.16.3.021

Treats Komitas: composer, musicologist, folklore collector, teacher, and founder of the Armenian school of composition, as a national symbol whose fate is read as the fate of the Armenian people. The article analyzes the worldview and psychological registers of his letters and the philosophy condensed in them, presenting the vardapet as both a son of his environment and a world-recognized musician with a dramatic inner life. Its aims are to use the letters as an instrument for revealing an inner world, to interpret their key messages from the standpoint of present-day artistic consciousness, and to trace intercultural communication through them. The author concludes that the letters do not fully unlock Komitas, but confirm that he purified, notated, and created 'the majestic homeland of our song.'

Komitas Armenian music epistolary sources literary criticism national identity

Armenian

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