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ISBN
9780773537668

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
ISBN-10
077353766X
ISBN-13
9780773537668
eBay Product ID (ePID)
15038704626

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
221 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Ars Americana, Ars Politica : Partisan Expression in Contemporary American Literature and Culture
Publication Year
2010
Subject
General, American / General, Semiotics & Theory, Subjects & Themes / Politics
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, Poetry
Author
Peter Swirski
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
11.1 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
College Audience
Reviews
"Peter Swirski has presented us with a soundly researched, passionate, and beautifully written work - a Jeremiad about other Jeremiads, and a powerful critique of American society and politics as reflected in American media and popular culture." Arthur As, "A provocative and energetic book that reaches out beyond academia in an attempt to define the nature of American political literature." Financial Times, "Ars Americana is fascinating and original - and the subject of political literature is endlessly interesting and important. Written with a certain verve which carries the reader along!" Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States, "Ars Americana, Ars Politica is an illuminating and highly entertaining look at the intersection of art, popular culture and politics. I learned a great deal about subjects where I thought I was a know-it-all. I strongly recommend this book." Robert W. McChesney, professor of communication, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, A provocative and energetic book that reaches out beyond academia in an attempt to define the nature of American political literature." Finantial Times Peter Swirski has presented us with a soundly researched, passionate, and beautifully written work – a Jeremiad about other Jeremiads, and a powerful critique of American society and politics as reflected in American media and popular culture." Arthur Asa Berger, Professor Emeritus in American Studies, Broadcast and Electronic Communication Arts, San Francisco State University "If Fox News reviews Ars Americana, Ars Politica sparks will fly. A book devoted to American literature, it itemizes the flaws in the way America is governed and deplores them. Raising fascinating issues, Peter Swirski has a prose style that will create a stir and encourage readers to take literature and the arts that much more seriously." David Rampton, Department of English, University of Ottawa, "Peter Swirski has presented us with a soundly researched, passionate, and beautifully written work - a Jeremiad about other Jeremiads, and a powerful critique of American society and politics as reflected in American media and popular culture." Arthur Asa Berger, Professor Emeritus in American Studies, Broadcast and Electronic Communication Arts, San Francisco State University "If Fox News reviews Ars Americana, Ars Politica sparks will fly. A book devoted to American literature, it itemizes the flaws in the way America is governed and deplores them. Raising fascinating issues, Peter Swirski has a prose style that will create a stir and encourage readers to take literature and the arts that much more seriously." David Rampton, Department of English, University of Ottawa, "Peter Swirski has presented us with a soundly researched, passionate, and beautifully written work - a Jeremiad about other Jeremiads, and a powerful critique of American society and politics as reflected in American media and popular culture." Arthur Asa Berger, Professor Emeritus in American Studies, Broadcast and Electronic Communication Arts, San Francisco State University, "Peter Swirski quite deliberately violates some of the most sacred taboos of our dominant literary criteria, which demand that we not pay serious attention to fiction that is partisan, political, and popular. Continually provocative, Ars Americana, Ars Politica plunges us into a kind of political art that anyone who wants to comprehend American popular culture cannot afford to ignore." H. Bruce Franklin, author of Vietnam and Other American Fantasies, "Ars Americana is fascinating and original - and the subject of political literature is endlessly interesting and important. Written with a certain verve which carries the reader along!" Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States "A provocative and energetic book that reaches out beyond academia in an attempt to define the nature of American political literature." Financial Times "Peter Swirski has presented us with a soundly researched, passionate, and beautifully written work - a Jeremiad about other Jeremiads, and a powerful critique of American society and politics as reflected in American media and popular culture." Arthur Asa Berger, Professor Emeritus in American Studies, Broadcast and Electronic Communication Arts, San Francisco State University "If Fox News reviews Ars Americana, Ars Politica sparks will fly. A book devoted to American literature, it itemizes the flaws in the way America is governed and deplores them. Raising fascinating issues, Peter Swirski has a prose style that will create a stir and encourage readers to take literature and the arts that much more seriously." David Rampton, Department of English, University of Ottawa
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
810.9/35873
Synopsis
As partisan attacks have become increasingly bitter in American politics, contemporary culture has found ways to channel this outrage into the outrageous, responding with comedy and satire from both sides of the political spectrum. Ars Americana, Ars Politica cross-examines American politics, culture, and history by examining Irving Wallace's The Man, Richard Condon's Death of a Politician, P.J. O'Rourke's Parliament of Whores, Warren Beatty's film Bulworth, and Michael Moore's Stupid White Men to show how these popular artists have used soap-box partisanship and box-office artertainment to affect history.

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