General information
The object/subject of the study of this grant project will be the literary elaborations of the 芦Daredevils of Sassoun禄 (芦Sasna Tsrer禄) epic and the manifestations of the epic material in different types of art, in other words, the multimodality of the epic material (painting, sculpture, bas-relief, miniature, illustration, screenplay, cinema, etc.). The epic 芦Daredevils of Sassoun禄 and the texts derived from it (Tumanyan, Isahakyan, Charents, Oshakan, Manvelyan, Vagharshyan, Siras, Sital, Sarmen, Tarontsi, Kheranyan, Hovhannes, etc.) will be considered in entirely new research frame. We will draw parallels between North-Eastern European 鈥 Estonian, Latvian, and Karelo-Finnish epics (芦Kalevipoeg禄, 芦Lachplesis禄, 芦Kalevala禄). Of course, we will focus mainly on 芦Kalevipoeg禄, that鈥檚 why our collaborator is one of the professors of Tallinn University. We will generate new knowledge based on modern literary and social science methods (C. S. Peirce, F. de Saussure, Y. Lotman, Um. Eco, M. Foucault, P. Bourdieu, R. Wodak, Jan Assmann, A. Assmann, and others). The work of the group will have an interdisciplinary character, which will be based on interdiscursivity that will contribute to the internationalization of Armenian studies and epic studies.