03218oam 2200637 a 450 991078379870332120231206210121.01-282-86385-197866128638510-7735-7324-010.1515/9780773573246(CKB)1000000000244902(OCoLC)756589352(CaPaEBR)ebrary10116338(SSID)ssj0000279690(PQKBManifestationID)11234791(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000279690(PQKBWorkID)10268126(PQKB)11673379(CaPaEBR)405041(CaBNvSL)gtp00521249 (DE-B1597)655257(DE-B1597)9780773573246(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/z6nxk0(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/3/405041(MiAaPQ)EBC3330522(MiAaPQ)EBC3242952(EXLCZ)99100000000024490220050607d2005 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrFrom lowbrow to nobrow[electronic resource] /Peter SwirskiMontréal, Que. McGill-Queen's University Pressc20051 online resource (232 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-7735-3019-3 0-7735-2992-6 Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-216) and index.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 -- IndexSwirski 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.Popular literatureHistory and criticismFiction20th centuryHistory and criticismPopular literatureHistory and criticism.FictionHistory and criticism.809.3/04Swirski Peter1963-874151MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910783798703321From lowbrow to nobrow3705184UNINA