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  • American Utopia
    Peter Swirski
    American Utopia maps the pitfalls prosocial reform in the name of the human use of human beings. Interrogating the assumptions behind four modern utopias by Thomas M. Disch, Bernard Malamud, Kurt Vonnegut, and Margaret Atwood, it interrogates the assumptions that have historically been central to the utopian project. ...
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    77,27 €

  • American Crime Fiction
    Peter Swirski
    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...
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    66,54 €

  • American Political Fictions
    Peter Swirski
    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. ...
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    48,15 €

  • American Political Fictions
    Peter Swirski
    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. ...
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    66,60 €

  • American Utopia and Social Engineering in Literature, Social Thought, and Political History
    Peter Swirski
    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 insi...
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    94,80 €

  • Literature, Analytically Speaking
    Peter Swirski
    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 ...
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    33,72 €

  • Of Literature and Knowledge
    Peter Swirski
    'Of Literature and Knowledge looks ... like an important advance in this new and very important subject... literature is about to become even more interesting.' - Edward O. Wilson, Pellegrino University Professor, Harvard University.Framed by the theory of evolution, this colourful and engaging volume presents a new understanding of the mechanisms by which we transfer informati...
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    82,92 €