Peter Swirski

Auteur van Stanislaw Lem Reader

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Peter Swirski is a Canadian scholar and literary critic featured in Canadian Who's Who. A Specialist in American literature and American Studies, he is the author of 15 books, including A Stanislaw Lem Reader; The Art and Science of Stomslaw Lem: From Literature to Biterature: Lem, Turing, Darwin, toon meer Lemograpghy and Stanislaw Lem: Selected Letters to Michael Kandel. toon minder

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Stanislaw Lem Reader (1997) — Redacteur — 38 exemplaren

Between Literature and Science: Poe, Lem, and Explorations in Aesthetics, Cognitive Science, and Literary Knowledge (2000) 20 exemplaren

From Lowbrow to Nobrow (2005) 19 exemplaren

The Art and Science of Stanislaw Lem (2006) 16 exemplaren

From Literature to Biterature: Lem, Turing, Darwin, and Explorations in Computer Literature, Philosophy of Mind, and… (2013) 15 exemplaren

Stanislaw Lem : philosopher of the future (2015) 11 exemplaren

Of Literature and Knowledge: Explorations in Narrative Thought Experiments, Evolution, and Game Theory (2006) 7 exemplaren

Ars Americana, Ars Politica: Partisan Expression in Contemporary American Literature and Culture (2010) 4 exemplaren

Literature, Analytically Speaking: Explorations in the Theory of Interpretation, Analytic Aesthetics, and Evolution… (2010) 4 exemplaren

American Utopia and Social Engineering in Literature, Social Thought, and Political History (Routledge Transnational… (2011) 3 exemplaren

I Sing the Body Politic: History As Prophecy in Contemporary American Literature (2009) 3 exemplaren

American Political Fictions: War on Errorism in Contemporary American Literature, Culture, and Politics (2015) 3 exemplaren

All Roads Lead to the American City (2007) 3 exemplaren

American Crime Fiction: A Cultural History of Nobrow Literature as Art (2016) 3 exemplaren

When highbrow meets lowbrow : popular culture and the rise of nobrow (2017) — Redacteur — 2 exemplaren

Lemography: Stanislaw Lem in the Eyes of the World (Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies LUP) (2014) 2 exemplaren

The art of artertainment : nobrow, American style (2019) — Redacteur — 1 exemplaar

Američka utopija i društveni inženjering u književnosti, društvenoj misli i političkoj povijesti (2017) 1 exemplaar

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Between literature and science : Poe, Lem, and… door Peter Swirski

I thought the author was going to use Poe's Eureka to make interesting connections between science and poetry, but he mostly just demolished the extent of Poe's knowledge of his contemporarys' scientific work. I enjoyed more some really interesting analysis of Lem's portrayal of the shortcomings of science in [b:The Invincible|251633|The Invincible|Stanisław Lem|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1441700738l/251633._SY75_.jpg|983629] - how little it might equip us to understand the totally alien entity. I felt his discussion of AI as author was a bit lacking in reference to the text and it also seemed dated, but then I realised that, having been written in 2000 it was actually quite prescient and it might be interesting to follow some of that thinking in later work, informed by advances in machine learning as applied to creativity.… (meer)

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