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Armenian Literature is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Anonymous is in the English language. If you enjoy the works of Anonymous then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection. ... Read more

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Title: Armenian Literature, Comprising Poetry, Drama, Folk-Lore, and Classic Traditions; Tr. Into English for the First Time, With a Special IntroductionPublisher: New York, Colonial PressSubjects: Armenian literatureNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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SALOME. Yes, certainly; she is dressing. You understand, dear aunt, how you are to talk to him? Perhaps you will succeed with him. They expect the final answer to-day; this morning the young man's sister was here, and she may be here again any minute. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from MELUS, published by The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnics Literature of the United States on March 22, 1994. The length of the article is 993 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The Magical Pine Ring: Culture and the Imagination in Armenian-American Literature. (book reviews)
Author: Walter Shear
Publication: MELUS (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 1994
Publisher: The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnics Literature of the United States
Volume: v19Issue: n1Page: p129(3)

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Chapters: Moses of Chorene, Armenian Printing, History of Armenia, List of Armenian Authors of V-xviii Centuries, Writers Union of Armenia, Echmiadzin Gospels, Vernatun, Armenian American Literature. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 52. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Moses of Chorene, also Moses of Khoren or Movses Khorenatsi (Armenian: , Armenian pronunciation: , also written Movss Xorenaci, Movses Khorenats'i, scholars have argued for either 5th century (circa 410 490s AD), or a 7th to 9th century date) was an Armenian historian, and author of the History of Armenia. He is credited with the earliest known historiographical work on the history of Armenia, but was also a poet, or hymn writer, and a grammarian. Although other Armenians, such as Agatangeghos, had written histories of Armenia, Movses' work holds particular significance because it contains unique material on the old oral traditions in Armenia during its pagan era and, more important, traces Armenian history from Movses' day to its origins. For this, he is considered to be the "father of Armenian history" (patmahayr), and is sometimes referred to as the "Armenian Herodotus." Movses identified himself as a young disciple of Saint Mesrop and was recognized by the Armenian Apostolic Church as one of the Holy Translators, although many scholars have noted internal discrepancies in his work which lead them to assign later dates (see below). He composed his work at the behest of Prince Sahak Bagratuni. The book has had an enormous impact on Armenian historiography and was used and quoted extensively by later medieval Armenian authors. Movses' biographical details are given at the very end of the History of Armenia but additional information provided by later medieval Armenian historians have allowed modern scholars to piec...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=8624996 ... Read more

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SALOME. Yes, certainly; she is dressing. You understand, dear aunt, how you are to talk to him? Perhaps you will succeed with him. They expect the final answer to-day; this morning the young man's sister was here, and she may be here again any minute. ... Read more

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Essays included in this volume are: Armenian-North American literature and the possibility of a Diaspora culture; lost fathers and abandoned sons - the silence of generations in Armenian-North American literature; Armenia imagined - homeland and Diaspora in Armenian-North American literature; and exile, Diaspora and the Armenian writer in a multicultural Canada. The essays stand in relation to the late-20th-century events in the Community of Independent States, specifically the independence of the Republic of Armenia, represents late-1990s thinking on the Diaspora. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from World Literature Today, published by University of Oklahoma on March 22, 1999. The length of the article is 437 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: NEAR EAST. Ara Baliozian. Definitions: A Critical Companion to Armenian History and Culture.(Review)(Brief Article)
Author: Stephen Zeytountsian
Publication: World Literature Today (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 1999
Publisher: University of Oklahoma
Volume: 73Issue: 2Page: 383

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Armenian Legends and Poems
by Zabelle C. Boyajian

A sampler of Armenian literature, legends and history.

"This is a collection of translations of Armenian literature from the middle ages, interspersed with poetry from the 19th century. In addition, there are a number of episodes from the chronicles of Moses of Khorene, a fifth century Armenian historian. These recount legendary incidents of ancient Armenian history. The anthologist and translator of many of these poems, Zabelle Boyajian, also created the luminous illustrations.

The book concludes with a long essay by Aram Raffi which contextualizes the long history of Armenian literature. This essay also details the long religious history of Armenia, starting with an extended discussion of the ancient Pagan deities. Armenia is in a region which is a cross-roads between Asia and Europe, and has more often than not been conquered by the dominant regional power of the day, starting with the Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Macedonians, through the Ottomans and finally the Russians.

Nevertheless, Armenia has managed to hold onto a unique cultural and linguistic identity. Armenians have produced a substantial national literature, particularly in those short windows of time while not under foreign domination." ... Read more

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Format Disappointing!
In reference to the content of the book, I think the book is rich with armenian folkloric poems, songs and stories.

On the other hand, I purchased the latest version of the book which is the "Paperback, January 9, 2010" so that I can get the best quality book possible. The book that I received, although the cover looked like the one advertised on Amazon, the inside did not look AT ALL like the preview I saw on Amazon.com. Plus, it turns out that in order for them to publish this book, they have used "OCR" technology to scan and reprint the original book. This means that there are no illustrations, there are no spaces between pages, there are no page numbers, there is no table of contents and it is absolutely impossible to distinguish one text from another as they are all connected as if they're one long story. It is just not readable! In the book, it says that "we provide excerpts of each book to booksellers so that readers can preview it before buying"....well, this was not the case on Amazon and there was NO mention of any OCR technology scanning the old book.

armenian poems and ledgens
Very informative about culture. Would recommend student, historian and people interested in people around the world. Leila Rae ... Read more

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Forging identity from loss first-generation Armenian American writingThis is an outstanding collection of literature from seventeen first-generation Armenian American authors, each introduced here by a member of the second generation. For the many readers who are unfamiliar with all but the most famous of these authors William Saroyan and Michael J. Arlen, for example powerful discoveries await: the writing in this volume is intense, magical, and filled with love of life. It is also characterized by the unspeakable sadness that accompanied the loss of so many Armenians in the genocide of 1915.Many of those who survived the genocide found their way to America, and writing became a salvation for talented young Armenian Americans in their struggle for dignity, identity, and meaning in their adopted country. Suffused with a sense of history, colored by personal experience, and imbued with the hopefulness of a fresh start, these stories convey what history books cannot. What coalesces, instead, is a deeply American story of the forces that propel individuals forward into a new world. ... Read more

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Rich literary contribution!
Great reading and a sense of pride that the First-Generation of Armenians contributed so much to literature!

A closer look at their dark history.
The often-forgotten Armenian genocides of the 1910s made many of the Armenian people take off for America in fear for their lives at the height of the immigration era. "Forgotten Bread: First-Generation Armenian American Writers" is an examination of those first immigrants authors, and the heralds of the atrocities they had witnessed, dictating them to paper to share with both their contemporaries and future generations. Seventeen first generation authors are presented, each introduced by a member of the second generation. These vital, deftly written and edited accounts are a must have for world history and literature collections and for Armenian readers who want a closer look at their dark history. ... Read more

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These volumes comprise a collection of papers by Michael E. Stone, written over a period of 35 years. Stone is a leading scholar in two different fields of research, the Jewish literature of the Second Temple period including the Dead Sea Scrolls, and Armenian Studies. So this collection includes essays relating to the origins and nature of the Apocryphal literature and its relationship with the Dead Sea Scrolls, as well as more specific studies devoted to themes that have interested Stone throughout his career, including Messianism, 4 Ezra, Adam and Eve, and Aramaic Levi Document. His Armenian interests have embraced the Armenian Biblical text, Armenian pilgrimage to and presence in the Holy Land and Armenian paleography and epigraphy. Papers included in the volumes, some of which were originally published in obscure venues, touch on all these themes. A number of previously unpublished papers are included. ... Read more