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200 10$aFrom lowbrow to nobrow /$fPeter Swirski
205   $a1st ed.
210   $aMontreal $cMcGill-Queen's University Press$dc2005
215   $a1 online resource (232 p.) 
300   $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
311   $a0-7735-3019-3 
311   $a0-7735-2992-6 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [193]-216) and index.
327   $tFront Matter -- $tContents -- $tIntroduction: Books Without Frontiers -- $tLowbrow: Positions and Oppositions -- $tFacts and Popular Fictions -- $tTowards Nobrow Aesthetics -- $tGenres and Paradoxes -- $tNobrow: Varie Ties of Artertainment -- $tKarel Čapek and the Politics of Memory -- $tRaymond Chandler?s Aesthetics of Irony -- $tStanislaw Lem and the Art of Science -- $tConclusion: Whose Art? -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex
330   $aSwirski 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.
606   $aPopular literature$xHistory and criticism
606   $aFiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism
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