The study examine the problems existing in the Ottoman Empire of the second half of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, which are related to the philosophical-antropological categories of subject and subjectivity in male-female relationships, the identification of female-male identities, to the internal domains of their coverage, as well as the possibilities of women’s emancipation and realization of their rights in a patriarchal society. The philosophical concepts of woman-subject and subjectivity were studied based on the philosophical-anthropological-feminist contexts of the works of Western Armenian female authors who were engaged in literary activities in the second half of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, as well as the contexts of socio-cultural and conceptual transformations of women’s emancipation. Their manifestations and changes in society are viewed as the genesis of women’s emancipation. This is an interdisciplinary study, so the material has been analyzed in the context of mutual connections and relationships between Philosophy, Literary Studies and Anthropology. The research is unprecedented since analysis of this kind has been attempted for the first time. It is also important and up-to-date in terms of analyses of women’s issues in the scope of Armenological Studies.

The paper focuses on the philosophical and socio-historical subtexts of the ideas on education and upbringing in Constantinople in the late 19th century and early 20th centuries, with examples from the works of Armenian female authors: Elpis Kesaratsian, Srbuhi Tyusab, Sipil, Haykanush Mark, Zapel Yesayan. According to them, the main historical and philosophical prerequisites for changing attitudes towards women’s education and upbringing relate not only to women but also to men. The aim of the paper is to study the issues of women’s indisputable right to education and upbringing, their natural learning abilities and opportunities as the quintessence of emancipation formed in Constantinople. The problem of the study is to show the philosophical subtext of the establishment of institutions for women’s education and upbringing, the organization of education, as well as the processes of overcoming the patriarchal tradition through education. This kind of study has been attempted for the first time. Since the 50s-60s of the 19th century, not only the nature of work and status of women but also the issues of their education and upbringing had special significance in Constantinople.

The aim of the research is to explore the typology of female characters in the works of female writers Srbuhi Tyusab, Sipil and Zapel Yesayan in the context of social transformations in the Ottoman Empire of the second half of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries. A comparative analysis of female characters in the novels Mayta (1881), Siranush (1884), Araksia or the Governess (1887) by Tyusab, A Girl’s Heart (1895) by Sipil, and Gardens of Silihtar (1935) by Zapel Yesayan has been attempted from the perspectives of literary and sociological studies. The data are analysed with the application of the graph-based semantic representation method. The actuality of the research lies in its interdisciplinarity, according to which mutual connections are created between literary studies, sociology and computer science. The selection of these works as research data is accounted for by their volume, variety of characters, simplicity of plots and little branching. All the main characters in all the novels are females. All the novels were written around the same time period (the 1880s-1900s) and bear characteristics of a romantic novel, except Zapel Yesayan’s autobiographical novel Gardens of Silihtar written in 1935. Despite the year the novel was written, in it Yesayan describes the same period (the end of the 19th century) reflected in Tyusab’s and Sipil’s novels.

The aim of the research is to examine the features of woman-subject’s [15, p. 900] self-representation, as well as the identification of the gender peculiarities of women’s literature in the poems of female authors who lived and worked in the Ottoman Empire in the second half of the 19th century. In the present study the poems are analysed in terms of the gender stereotypes of femininity and masculinity. The actuality of the paper is conditioned by the attempt and analysis of the subjective manifestations of consciousness of female authors and the problem of woman - subject - identity as a presence of writing. Such kind of analysis has been attempted for the first time. Generalizing the binary gender manifestations of femininity and masculinity, we notice that they are revealed through aesthetic images, are peculiar to the consciousness of female authors and are expressed through the poetics of their works. Therefore, these texts were viewed from two perspectives: a. expression of gender-related world-image, b. presentation of a definite gender-related problem. Summarizing the study scientifically and theoretically, it should be noted that in the Ottoman Empire female discourse in various literary genres is revealed through structural and paradigmatic specific ethnic elements, therefore, a serious study of the poetics and typology of women’s writings with new methodological principles is required.

Key words: Srbuhi Tyusab, “Mayta”, “Araksia, or the Governess”, feminine discourse, trope, intertext, ellipsis, oxymoron This article is an attempt to examine the linguistic and stylistic stratifications, their features, and interpenetrations in the novels “Mayta” and “Araksia, or the Governess” by the Western Armenian writer Srbuhi Tyusab. The aim of the study is to identify the linguostylistic stratifications in the novels of Srbuhi Tyusab “Maita” and “Araksia, or the Governess” as a female writing technique, based on the study of the linguistic features of the prose of Western Armenian female authors of the second half of the 19th century. The problem of the study is to newly interpret the literary techniques and tools (comparisons, allegories, metaphors, oxymoron, ellipsis, morphological and syntactic tricks, etc.) used in the fiction works of Western Armenian women authors of the second half of the 19th century. In the novels of Srbuhi Tyusab, the female-male worldview and world-images are clearly emphasized. The material was analyzed in the context of the reciprocal connections and relationships between linguistics and literary studies. We used the method of comparative, linguistic, and literary anthropology, which we applied by the principle of umbrella: observing the linguistic stratifications of the mentioned novels of Srbuhi Tyusab as an identification of femininity, in one radius. The research is unprecedented as this kind of study has been done for the first time. It acquires its importance and relevance not only in terms of interdisciplinarity, but also in the context of the analysis of «women’s problems » in Armenology. In order to be faithful to the originality of the article, we used the originals of Tyusab’s novels and not the reprints.