From Lowbrow to Nobrow

From Lowbrow to Nobrow
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224
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0773530193
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Library of America
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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-aestetics 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 citics. Examining the aesthetics of "artertainment" in Karel

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