CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2015
| Author | Hayrapetyan, Piruza |
|---|---|
| Title | The emergence of the armenian gandz-hymns: possible syriac and byzantine echoes |
| Summary | The goal of the present study is to examine the gandz’s (a special type of Armenian hymns) twofold relationship with, first, Armenian liturgical sermon (zhamagrk‘ayin k‘aroz) and, second, Syriac and Byzantine hymnological genres, namely, madrāshā, memrā and kontakion. The study represents a one-level comparison concentrating merely on a literary-poetical form: other aspects of the gandz and, consequently, its literary connections with above mentioned hymnological genres on other levels (metrical, musical and literary motif) are not considered here. Based on structural analysis of, on one hand, gandz and, on the other hand, k‘aroz, madrāshā, memrā and kontakion, I try to demonstrate the extent of the literary dependence of gandz upon these genres tracing the shared structural features. Also, the analysis reveals those structural features which make gandz a distinctive hymnological genre from the above mentioned genres. |
| Supervisor | Perczel, István |
| Department | Medieval Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2015/hayrapetyan_piruza.pdf |
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