Includes bibliographical references (p. 387-400) and index
""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""A Note on the Transliteration""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""INTRODUCTION: Art, Religion, and Philology""; ""PART ONE: “The Seal of Silence�""; ""1. Variants and Facets of the Literary Erection""; ""2. Abovean and the Birth of the Native""; ""3. Orientalism and Neo-Archeology""; ""PART TWO: Daniel Varuzhan: The End of Religion""; ""4. The Disaster of the Native""; ""5. The Other Scene of Representation""; ""6. Erection and Self-Sacrifice""; ""7. The Mourning of Religion I""; ""8. The Mourning of Religion II""
""EPILOGUE: Nietzsche in Armenian Literature at the Turn of the Twentieth Century""""Appendices: Translations""; ""A. Excerpts from Nineteenth-Century Works of Philology and Ethnography""; ""B. Essays in Mehyan and Other Writings of Constant Zarian""; ""C. Daniel Varuzhan: Poems and Prose""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""