{"product_id":"from-lowbrow-to-nobrow-peter-swirski-9780773530195","title":"From Lowbrow to Nobrow","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Swirski\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0773530193\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780773530195\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e McGill-Queen's University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/24\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 236\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.78lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.46w x 0.59d","brand":"Peter Swirski","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48216505712895,"sku":"9780773530195","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9e93d373-51c2-4b21-b985-7d562b841eb5.jpg?v=1771991453","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/from-lowbrow-to-nobrow-peter-swirski-9780773530195","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}