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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-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 literature --- Fiction --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- Čapek, Karel, --- Chandler, Raymond, --- Lem, Stanisław.

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Popular literature --- Paralittérature --- Fiction --- History and criticism. --- Paralittérature --- 20th century --- History and criticism --- 19th century --- Fiction - 20th century̨ - History and criticism --- Fiction - 19th century - History and criticism. --- Popular literature - History and criticism.

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Covers authors who are currently active or who died after December 31, 1959. Profiles novelists, poets, playwrights and other creative and nonfiction writers by providing criticism taken from books, magazines, literary reviews, newspapers and scholarly journals.

American literature --- Censorship. --- Drama --- European literature --- Literature --- Literature, Modern --- Poetry, Modern --- Popular literature. --- Stories, plots, etc. --- History and criticism --- Lee, Harper. --- Morrison, Toni. --- Sebald, W. G.,

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Covers authors who are currently active or who died after December 31, 1959. Profiles novelists, poets, playwrights and other creative and nonfiction writers by providing criticism taken from books, magazines, literary reviews, newspapers and scholarly journals.

American literature --- Drama --- European literature --- Fantasy in literature. --- Literature --- Literature, Modern --- Poetry, Modern --- Popular literature. --- History and criticism --- Cisneros, Sandra. --- Sebold, Alice. --- Shields, Carol.

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This volume ranges from the Second World War to the postmodern, considering issues of the 'popular' and the competing criteria by which literature has been judged in the later twentieth century. As well as tracing the transition from modernism to postmodernism, the authors guide students through debates around the pleasures of the popular and the question of inter-relations between 'mass' and 'high' cultures. Drawing further upon issues of value and function raised in Aestheticism and Modernism: Debating Twentieth-Century Literature 1900-1960, they examine contemporary literary prizes and the activity of judgement involved in English Studies. This text can be used alongside the other books in the series for a complete course on twentieth-century literature, or on its own as essential reading for students of mid to late twentieth-century writing. Texts examined in detail include: du Maurier's Rebecca, poetry by Ginsburg and O'Hara, Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Puig's Kiss of the Spiderwoman, Beckett's Waiting for Godot, Heaney's New Selected Poems 1966-1987, Gurnah's Paradise, Barker's The Ghost Road.

Literature, Modern --- Popular literature --- Canon (Literature) --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc. --- Literature, Popular --- Books and reading --- Popular culture --- Modern literature --- Arts, Modern --- Classics, Literary --- Literary canon --- Literary classics --- Best books --- Criticism --- Literature --- History and criticism&delete& --- Theory, etc --- Literature, Modern - 20th century - History and criticism - Theory, etc. --- Popular literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc.