The Sociology of Female Characters in the Novels of Western Armenian Female Authors in the Late 19th Century

Naira Hambardzumyan; Siranush Parsadanyan

doi:10.21638/spbu13.2023.405

Authors

Naira Hambardzumyan Institute of Literature after Manuk Abeghian of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2792-8891
Siranush Parsadanyan Institute of Literature after Manuk Abeghian of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu13.2023.405

Abstract

The aim of the research is to reveal the sociology of building women characters (their vocabulary) in the novels of two Armenian female authors, namely novelist-publicist Srbuhi Tyusab and novelist-poet Sipil, who lived and worked in the Ottoman Empire, Constantinople in particular, in the second half of the 19th century. The problem of the study is the literary-sociological and linguistic generalizations of female characters’ vocabulary in Srbuhi Tyusab’s novel “Araksia or the Governess” and Sipil’s “A Girl’s Heart” from the perspectives of comparative analysis of linguistic features, vocabulary and semantic commonalities of the texts. A comparative analysis of female characters in the novels “Araksia or the Governess” (1887) by Tyusab and “A Girl’s Heart” (1891) by Sipil, has been attempted from the perspectives of literary and sociological studies. The actuality of the study lies in its interdisciplinarity, according to which the material was analyzed in the context of mutual connections between literary studies, linguistics, social and computer sciences with the application of the methods of literary and linguistic comparison, sociological statistics, as well as the graph-based semantic representation method. This kind of study has been attempted for the first time. It is important and actual not only in terms of interdisciplinarity, but also in terms of the analysis of women’s issues in Armenian Studies.

Keywords:

Srbuhi Tyusab, Sipil, action characteristics, portrait characteristics, female characters, sociology

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