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UNINA9910783798703321 |
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Swirski Peter <1963-> |
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From lowbrow to nobrow [[electronic resource] /] / Peter Swirski |
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Montréal, Que., : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2005 |
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1-282-86385-1 |
9786612863851 |
0-7735-7324-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (232 p.) |
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Popular literature - History and criticism |
Fiction - 20th century - History and criticism |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-216) and index. |
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Front Matter -- Contents -- Introduction: Books Without Frontiers -- Lowbrow: Positions and Oppositions -- Facts and Popular Fictions -- Towards Nobrow Aesthetics -- Genres and Paradoxes -- Nobrow: Varie Ties of Artertainment -- Karel Èapek and the Politics of Memory -- Raymond Chandler’s Aesthetics of Irony -- Stanislaw Lem and the Art of Science -- Conclusion: Whose Art? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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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. |
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UNINA9910964821603321 |
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Autore |
Larson Edward J |
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Trial and Error : The American Controversy Over Creation and Evolution |
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Oxford University Press, 1989 |
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0-19-972786-4 |
1-280-60540-5 |
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[3rd ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (254 p.) |
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344.73/095 347.30495 |
344.73095347.30495 |
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Creationism |
Evolution |
Evolution - Study and teaching - Law and legislation - United States |
Evolution (Biology) |
Evolution (Biology) - Law and legislation - Study and teaching - United States |
Creationism - Study and teaching - Law and legislation - United States |
Law - U.S. - General |
Law - U.S |
Law, Politics & Government |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Contents; Introduction; 1. Scene of the Crime: Evolution in American Education Before 1920; 2. Outlawing Evolution, 1920-1925; 3. Enforcing the Law, 1925-1960; 4. Legalizing Evolution, 1961-1970; 5. Legislating Equal Time, 1970-1981; 6. Outlawing Creation: Legal Developments Since 1981; Conclusion; Appendix; Notes; Bibliographic Note; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z |
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The debate over teaching evolution in the public schools remains one of the most emotionally-charged controversies in twentieth-century America. Now available in a revised and updated edition, Edward J. Larson's highly-acclaimed study--which ranges from before the Scopes trial of 1925 tothe creationism disputes of the 1980s--offers the first |
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comprehensive account of the educational and legal battles erupting from this persistent confrontation. Larson traces the origins of the dispute back to the late nineteenth century, a period marked by the scientific acceptance of evolution, the rise o |
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