Armen Avanessian: 2 books
Metanoia
A Speculative Ontology of Language, Thinking, and the Brain
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Fusing speculative realism, analytical and linguistic philosophy this book theorises the fundamental impact the experience of reading has on us. In reading, language provides us with a world and meaning becomes perceptible. We can connect with another subjectivity, another place, another time. At...
Present Tense
A Poetics
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
The invention of the present-tense novel is a literary event whose importance is on par with the discovery of perspective in painting. From the first novels shaped by interior monologues and the use of the present tense in the tradition of modernism, the present tense has, over the course of its century-long...