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  • Behold A Virgin

    by Peter Swirski ...
    March, 1957. A lone policeman trudges through smog-filled streets of London to a scene of a savage domestic homicide. Trying to wrap his head around a series of attacks, in which men senselessly brutalize the women they live with, Detective Inspector Shepard finds himself following a trail of mysterious disappearances, inexplicable suicides, and attacks of panic and hysteria in an effort to find a ... Read more

    $9.90 USD

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  • American Crime Fiction

    A Cultural History of Nobrow Literature as Art

    by Peter Swirski ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Peter Swirski looks at American crime fiction as an artform that expresses and reflects the social and aesthetic values of its authors and readers. As such he documents the manifold ways in which such authorship and readership are a matter of informed literary choice and not of cultural brainwashing or declining literary standards. Asking, in effect, a series of questions about the nature of genre ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Art and Science of Stanislaw Lem

    by Peter Swirski ...
    The Polish science fiction writer Stanislaw Lem, whose works include Return from the Stars, The Cyberiad, A Perfect Vacuum, and Solaris, has been hailed as a "literary Einstein" and a science-fiction Bach. The Art and Science of Stanislaw Lem provides an inter-disciplinary analysis of his influence on Western culture and the creative partnering of art and science in his fiction and futorology by ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Literature, Analytically Speaking

    Explorations in the Theory of Interpretation, Analytic Aesthetics, and Evolution

    by Peter Swirski ...
    Series series Cognitive Approaches to Literature and Culture Series
    In a new approach to interdisciplinary literary theory, Literature, Analytically Speaking integrates literary studies with analytic aesthetics, girded by neo-Darwinian evolution. Scrutinizing narrative fiction through a lens provided by analytic philosophy, revered literary theorist Peter Swirski puts new life into literary theory while fashioning a set of practical guidelines for critics in the ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • American Utopia

    Literature, Society, and the Human Use of Human Beings

    by Peter Swirski ...
    From Black Tuesday to the White House, from Plato to Robert Nozick, from Eugene Debs to Richard Nixon, from Peter Cornelis Plockhoy to the hippie communes of the Sixties, from universal basic income to utopian basic income, from proverbial wisdom to multilevel selection, from Big Data to paleomorality, from Prisoner’s Dilemma to social-engineering Israeli kindergartens, from time travel to gene ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • From Literature to Biterature

    Lem, Turing, Darwin, and Explorations in Computer Literature, Philosophy of Mind, and Cultural Evolution

    by Peter Swirski ...
    From Literature to Biterature is based on the premise that in the foreseeable future computers will become capable of creating works of literature. Among hundreds of other questions, it considers: Under which conditions would machines become capable of creative writing? Given that computer evolution will exceed the pace of natural evolution a million-fold, what will such a state of affairs entail ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • American Political Fictions

    War on Errorism in Contemporary American Literature, Culture, and Politics

    by Peter Swirski ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Through a discussion of diverse art and media such as apocalyptic thrillers, rap, and television, Swirski debunks the American political system, sieving out fact from a sea of bipartisan untruths. Engaging with close analysis and multiple case studies, this book forges a more accurate picture of contemporary American culture and of America itself. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • From Literature to Biterature

    Lem, Turing, Darwin, and Explorations in Computer Literature, Philosophy of Mind, and Cultural Evolution

    by Peter Swirski ...
    From Literature to Biterature is based on the premise that in the foreseeable future computers will become capable of creating works of literature. Among hundreds of other questions, it considers: Under which conditions would machines become capable of creative writing? Given that computer evolution will exceed the pace of natural evolution a million-fold, what will such a state of affairs entail ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • When Highbrow Meets Lowbrow

    Popular Culture and the Rise of Nobrow

    Edited by Peter Swirski, Tero Eljas Vanhanen ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book examines nobrow, a cultural formation that intertwines art and entertainment into an identifiable creative force. In our eclectic and culturally turbocharged world, the binary of highbrow vs. lowbrow is incapable of doing justice to the complexity and artistry of cultural production. Until now, the historical power, aesthetic complexity, and social significance of nobrow “artertainment” ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • I Sing the Body Politic

    by Peter Swirski ...
    The end of George W. Bush's imperial presidency means that the wreckage of the republic's political ideals is now subject to a vigorous reassessment. In essays by five senior scholars major works of American literature and film are analyzed in the context of a larger set of arguments about American injustice at home and across the empire. ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • American Utopia and Social Engineering in Literature, Social Thought, and Political History

    by Peter Swirski ...
    Series series Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature
    The United States today is afflicted with political alienation, militarized violence, institutionalized poverty, and social agony. Worst of all, perhaps, it is afflicted with chronic and acute ahistoricism. America insist on ignoring the context of its present dilemmas. It insists on forgetting what preceded the headlines of today and on denying continuity with history. It insists, in short, on ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • I Sing the Body Politic

    History as Prophecy in Contemporary American Literature

    by Peter Swirski ...
    A critical investigation of the dead ends, dead metaphors, dead bodies, and other historical constants of American politics. ... Read more

    $27.59 USD