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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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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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Edizione |
[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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UNINA9910960659903321 |
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Autore |
Lyons Andrew P (Andrew Paul) |
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Irregular connections : a history of anthropology and sexuality / / Andrew P. Lyons and Harriet D. Lyons |
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Lincoln, : University of Nebraska Press, c2004 |
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9786610424139 |
9781280424137 |
1280424133 |
9780803204379 |
080320437X |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (437 p.) |
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Critical studies in the history of anthropology |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Sex customs - History |
Anthropology - History |
Anthropologists - Attitudes |
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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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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [349]-384) and index. |
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Introduction -- Three images of primitive sexuality and the definition of species -- Sex and the refuge for destitute truth -- Matriarchy, marriage by capture, and other fantasies -- The reconstruction of "primitive sexuality" at the Fin de Siecle -- "Old Africa hands" -- Malinowski as "reluctant sexologist" -- Margaret Mead, the future of language, and lost opportunities -- The "silence" -- Sex in contemporary anthropology -- Conclusions and unfinished business. |
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Irregular Connections traces the anthropological study of sex from the eighteenth century to the present, focusing primarily on social and cultural anthropology and the work done by researchers in North America and Great Britain. Andrew P. and Harriet D. Lyons argue that |
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the sexuality of those whom anthropologists studied has been conscripted into Western discourses about sex, including debates about prostitution, homosexuality, divorce, premarital relations, and hierarchies of gender, class, and race. Because sex is the most private of activities and often carries a high emotional charge, it is peculiarly difficult to investigate. At times, such as the late 1920s and the last decade of the twentieth century, sexuality has been a central concern of anthropologists and focal in their theoretical formulations. At other times the study of sexuality has been marginalized. The anthropology of sex has sometimes been one of the main faces that anthropology presented to the public, often causing resentment within the discipline. Irregular Connections discusses several individuals who have played a significant role in the anthropological study of sexuality, including Sir Richard Burton, Havelock Ellis, Edward Westermarck, Bronislaw Malinowski, Margaret Mead, George Devereux, Robert Levy, Gilbert Herdt, Stephen O. Murray, and Esther Newton. Synthesizing a wealth of information from different anthropological traditions, the authors offer a seamless history of the anthropology of sex as it has been practiced and conceptualized in North America and Great Britain. |
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