From Lowbrow to Nobrow by Swirski, Peter

From Lowbrow to Nobrow (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780773530195)

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From Lowbrow to Nobrow by Swirski, Peter

From Lowbrow to Nobrow

$24.95
From Lowbrow to Nobrow by Swirski, Peter

From Lowbrow to Nobrow

$24.95
Format: Paperback
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Swirski begins with a series of groundbreaking questions about the nature of popular fiction, vindicating it as an artform that expresses and reflects the aesthetic and social values of its readers. He follows his insightful introduction to the socio-aesthetics of genre literature with a synthesis of the century long debate on the merits of popular fiction and a study of genre informed by analytic aesthetics and game theory. Swirski then turns to three "nobrow" novels that have been largely ignored by critics. Examining the aesthetics of "artertainment" in Karel Capek's War with the Newts, Raymond Chandler's Playback, and Stanislaw Lem's Chain of Chance, crossover tours de force, From Lowbrow to Nobrow throws new light on the hazards and rewards of nobrow traffic between popular forms and highbrow aesthetics.

Author: Peter Swirski
ISBN-10: 0773530193
ISBN-13: 9780773530195
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/24/2005
Pages: 236
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.46w x 0.59d
By Peter Swirski
By Peter Swirski
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Peter Swirski is research director at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies (HCAS) and professor of American literature and culture at UMSL. He is the author of ten books, including the National Book Award nominated Ars Americana, Ars Politica (2010

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