From Lowbrow to Nobrow
From Lowbrow to Nobrow
Editorial Reviews
Review
"This superb book will make all previous studies in popular culture moot. Swirski demonstrates that in cultures there are no brows whatsoever. This book must be owned by all libraries and cultural studies scholars." Ray B. Browne, author of The Guide to U.S. Popular Culture "I would rank this book among the top five in popular culture studies." Gary Hoppenstand, editor of The Journal of Popular Culture and Popular Fiction: An Anthology
Book 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
From Lowbrow to Nobrow
From Lowbrow to Nobrow,Peter Swirski,McGill-Queen's University Press,0773530193,Canadian,Literature - Classics / Criticism,Popular Culture - General,Social Science,Sociology
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