WORLDVIEW AND IDEOLOGICAL TENDENCIES OF THE LATE 19th AND EARLY 20th CENTURIES IN ARMENIAN LITERARY CRITICISM

The article presents the ideological and worldview tendencies in Armenian reality in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and their influence on the literary criticism of the time. Firstly, the article focuses on the social-political situation that influences the formation of social-political ideologies, then the approaches of representatives of various directions on different spheres of life. The study also discusses the influence of these currents on the formation of the views of the literary critics of the time. As an obvious example of a literary work that was exposed to diverse literary criticism, some pieces of critical reviews on the poem "Loretsi Sako" by H. Toumanyan are presented. These reviews prove that artistic and philosophical approaches of the social-political currents of the time serve as the basis of subjective evaluations carried out by literary critics.