Vol. 5 No. 1(142) (2014)

Articles

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    The Issues of Literary Relationships and Effects in the Works of Ed. Jrbashyan

    MAGDA JANPOLADYAN
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    The article covers and values the works of academician Jrbashyan related to the issues of Armenian literature in the context of literary effects and relationships. Those issues have always been on the focus of the scientist’s intent attention. Several articles are chosen and analyzed from the various works dedicated to the mentioned issues, as well as the monograph named “Pushkin and Armenian poets”. The questionings on various problems, discoveries on the base of factual material, as well as the thoroughness of conclusions visually prove Ed. Jrbashyan’s solid investment in the research sphere of Armenian literary relationships and effects.

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    George Vardapet Meghrik's Language of Prayers

    NARINE DILBARYAN
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    George Vardapet Meghrik (Sevantsi, Drazarktsi) is a little-known but extraordinary Armenian spiritual leader of XI-XII centuries, a monk-hermit, teacher, translator, writer, reformer of the church, who was called Meghr or Meghrik (“honey” in Armenian) by his contemporaries because of his sweet language and good character. According to various sources, he was born in 1043 /45 in the village Analyur of Vaspurakan region in the territory of Greater Armenia. At the age of twenty he decided to become a monk and entered the Monastery of Sevan. At the end of XI century he moved into Cilicia, becoming the colleague and the favourite of the Catholicos Gregory II Vkayaser who insisted that he settled in Parlah, after that in the Red Monastery Shughr, which was the throne of the Catholicos in the years 1105-1116. He spent the last years of his life in the Monastery of Drazark, which he turned into a temple complex and there he wrote the Lawbook of Drazark’s monastery. He spent the last years of his life in the Monastery of Drazark, which he turned into a temple complex and there he wrote the Lawbook of Drazark’s monastery. Due to his efforts, Drazark became an educational and cultural center in Armenia. From his little heritage only
    a few works have been preserved – a few prayers, songs, among which the most valuable ones are “The Book of Prayers” and “Words of Confessions” written in refined Grabar. We have restored the text of the prayer «Words of Confessions» on the basis of two manuscripts of Matenadaran, one of which is the oldest – written in 1297, № 640 and the second– № 2607, a more holistic one although written later.

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    Attributive Compounds in the English and Armenian Languages

    SIRARPI KARAPETYAN
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    The aim of the article is to study of one of the forms of subordinative compounds, i.e. compounds (synthetic constructions) syntactically characterized as attributive compounds (with the syntactic connection of “defining-defined”). The aim of the article is to reveal the differences and similarities of these compounds in both languages, analyze the components from morphological-categorial (to which part of speech they belong) point of view and of the syntactic connection between the components. Besides, the semantic fields of the first components of the compounds of this type are also studied. The observed peculiarities have great importance for the structural and typological characteristics of the languages being studied.

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    The Peculiarities of Manifesting Inducement and Imperation in English

    Լուսինե Այվազյան
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    The article introduces the means of expressing imperation and inducement in English as well as the possibilities of their differentiation, similarities and semantic divergences. Some characteristic definitions are also presented, due to which it becomes possible to distinguish imperative and inductive sentences distinctly.

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    The Multifarious Nature of Literary Studies

    ZHENYA KALANTARYAN
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    Based on vast amounts of data, this article analyses various perceptions of literary studies and the object of its study – literature. Throughout history, changing perspectives of literary studies and literature have led to different and sometimes even contradictive methods of analysis. The variety of research methods in literary studies is also determined by the multifarious nature of literature, as well as the need to elucidate its different sides. This article attempts to show that literary studies ― irrespective of its diversity ― has retained its entirety. It is also noted that moral and humanistic criteria, which
    are characteristic of the humanities, are often ignored in contemporary scientific discourse analysis. The present study concludes that literary studies are subject to ongoing development, and as historical experience shows, transformations in this process should not be ruled out.

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    Attempt at Analysis of the Poem Radix, Matrix by Paul Celan

    SERGEY STEPANYAN
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    The present article aims to illustrate the poetological experience of Paul Celan (the poem "Radix, Matrix"), a Jew poet, who keeps writing poems in German, his mother tongue (other language). Ideological absolutism of German makes the unique absurdity basis for every non-German being. The fundamental concepts and words of this language are changed and recharged.

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    Hovhannes Tumanyan in Edward Jrbashyan’s life

    SUSANNA HOVHANNISYAN
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    Ed. Jrbashyan is an author of many valuable scientific publications on Tumanyan-study. He studied the Armenian poet’s works in all genres - poems, ballads, and prose. He broke untouchable vulgar sociological stereotype of analyzing Tumanyan’s
    works ruling more than 3 decades, and emphasizing the aesthetic side of his works. The primitive analysis of the writer’s works developed into a serious scientific speech; due to him Tumanyan-study entered a new stage of development, which can be
    called as Jrbashyan-style. Ed. Jrbashyan’s research played a decisive role in the further development of Tumanyan- study providing quite a new quality in that field. In addition to being a talented researcher Jrbashyan was also a wonderful organizer and leader in Armenian literary science. Today the academician’s works still have a guiding character. Edward Jrbashyan’s
    literary studies once again confirmed Tumanyan’s eternal existence in the culture of our nation as well as in the history of world literature.

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