About

A theoretical, mythopoetic work, Tractatüus Philosophiká-Poeticüus uses various poetic, narrative, and dramatic techniques and devices to fashion a new scriptoral genre, one that is engaged with critical discourses, even while it reads like a labyrinthine story. An aesthetic theory that depicts the path of writing through the deployment of a group of anonymous wanderers and a constantly metamorphosing ‘I,’ Tractatüus Philosophiká-Poeticüus uses the parameters and the dynamics of the reading experience to construct this treatise on poetics. The work defies convenient categorization and tackles, through formal and stylistic innovations, the very possibilities and limits of literature.

Author

Amir Parsa was born in Tehran and now lives in New York. He is the author of fourteen books. A former lecturer, educator, and director of award-winning educational initiatives at the Museum of Modern Art, Parsa is the acting associate dean at Pratt Institute in the School of Art and Design.

Publisher

Distributed for UpSet Press.