| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 197 pages) |
| Contents |
""Contents""; ""Introduction: The Man behind the Giant""; ""1 Smart Robots""; ""2 (Un)masking the Agent: Stanislaw Lem�s “The Mask�""; ""3 Betrization Is the Worst Solution � with the Exception of All Others""; ""4 A Freudian Peek at Lem�s Fiasco""; ""5 Summa technologiae � Looking Back and Ahead""; ""6 Models of Evolution in the Writings of Stanislaw Lem""; ""7 Skepticism, Realism, Fallibilism: On Lem�s Epistemological Themes""; ""8 Lem, Central Europe, and the Genre of Technological Empire""; ""9 Lem on Film""; ""10 Solaris! Solaris. Solaris?"" |
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""Stanislaw Lem: A Brief Chronological Biography""""Bibliography""; ""About the Authors"" |
| Summary |
The Polish science fiction writer Stanislaw Lem, whose works include Return from the Stars, The Cyberiad, A Perfect Vacuum, and Solaris, has been hailed as a ""literary Einstein"" and a science-fiction Bach. The Art and Science of Stanislaw Lem provides an inter-disciplinary analysis of his influence on Western culture and the creative partnering of art and science in his fiction and futorology by American and European scholars who have defined Lem scholarship |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Lem, Stanisław -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Lem, Stanisław fast |
| Subject |
Polish literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- Eastern.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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Polish literature
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Swirski, Peter, 1966- editor.
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| LC no. |
2007407189 |
| ISBN |
9780773575073 |
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0773575073 |
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0773578293 |
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9780773578296 |
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1282865625 |
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9781282865624 |
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9786612865626 |
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6612865628 |
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