Peter Swirski: 8 books
Literature, Analytically Speaking
Explorations in the Theory of Interpretation, Analytic Aesthetics, and Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
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...
From Literature to Biterature
Lem, Turing, Darwin, and Explorations in Computer Literature, Philosophy of Mind, and Cultural Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
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...
Of Literature and Knowledge
Explorations in Narrative Thought Experiments, Evolution and Game Theory
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2007
"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...
by Peter Swirski
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
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...
American Crime Fiction
A Cultural History of Nobrow Literature as Art
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
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...
American Political Fictions
War on Errorism in Contemporary American Literature, Culture, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
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.
by Peter Swirski
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
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.
by Peter Swirski
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2006
Rather than analyzing Lem solely as a science fiction writer, the contributors examine the larger themes in his work, such as social engineering and human violence, agency and consciousness, Freudianism and the creative process, evolution and the philosophy of the future, virtual reality and epistemological illusion, and science fiction and socio-cultural policy.