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Publication of Guest Post #2 in Aesthetics Research Lab

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My essay Aesthetic ineffability and the rebirth of the reader  was published in May 2020 on  Aesthetics Research Lab ,  a "digital think tank and resource, revolving around theoretical and practical issues in aesthetics" conceived by Michael Spicher, PhD.  Here is the  link . This essay examine the idea that literature is as capable of giving rise to an experience of aesthetic ineffability as the other arts. Furthermore, the ineffable experience in literature may be a product of both the author and the reader, and that there is similarly a need for a confluence between the artist and viewer in other art forms too for ineffability to arise.

Publication of my second essay in The Punch Magazine

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My essay  Vasily Grossman, Graham Greene and the nature of doubt  was published in  The Punch Magazine  in May 2020 - see  link. Claude Monet, Water Lily Pond (1899) (Wikimedia, Public Domain) What’s more important: having faith or being human? This essay examines this question by juxtaposing the work of the Russian writer Vasily Grossman against that of the English novelist Graham Greene.