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Peter Swirski

Peter Swirski (born 1966) is a Canadian scholar and literary critic featured in Canadian Who's Who. Specialist in American literature and American Studies, he is the author of fifteen books, including the prize-winning Ars Americana, Ars Politica (2010) and the staple of American popular culture studies From Lowbrow to Nobrow (2005). His other well-known studies include American Utopia and Social Engineering (2011), Literature, Analytically Speaking (2010), and Of Literature and Knowledge (2007). He is recognized as the foremost scholar on the late writer and philosopher Stanisław Lem.