Information: - Peter Swirski (born 1966) is a Canadian scholar and literary critic featured in "Canadian Who's Who" and Amazon's #1 Bestseller in American Literary History and Criticism and in Canadian Literary History and Criticism. Specialist in American literature and American Studies, he is the author of seventeen 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), "American Political Fictions" (2015), and the digital-futurological bestseller "From Literature to Biterature" (2013). He is also the leading scholar on the late writer and philosopher Stanisaw Lem. - From Lowbrow to Nobrow is a book on literary culture written by Peter Swirski , professor of American literature and culture at the University of Missouri , St. Louis and Research Director at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies . Swirski is the author of twelve books of American literature and culture , Stanislaw Lem , and theory of knowledge . Having gone through several printings , the book is by now a staple in American popular culture studies . It furnishes a series of analyses of the relation of popular fiction to high literary culture . In his work , Swirski challenges the highbrow vs lowbrow categorization of literary culture , and popular culture in general by focusing attention on what he terms the nobrow taste culture , whereby '' authors simultaneously target both extremes of the literary spectrum '' . In the first half of the book , Swirski details the historical facts behind the functioning of popular fiction , and discusses the concept of genres and the nobrow aesthetics . He does this by tracing the socio - historical development of the book publishing industry and scouring the publishing statistical data from sources such as UNESCO and the American Book Industry Study Group . Supported by statistics , illustrations , and case studies , the author asks for a more serious examination of popular literature . Because of its mass appeal , critics and academics are quick to conclude that popular literature is lowbrow art. Swirski asserts that in fact some of the best works in the twentieth century come from authors who refuse to succumb to either the highbrow / academic literary formulae , or to the formulaic popular genres sold at the '' bestseller - and - moccacino '' bookstore chains . He demonstrates his arguments in the second half of the book by analyzing three '' nobrow '' works : Karel apek 's War With the Newts ( 1936 ) , Raymond Chandler 's Playback ( 1958 ) , and Stanislaw Lem 's The Chain of Chance ( 1976 ) . All three , and many others mentioned and discussed in this book , are... - Canadian Who's Who is a reference publication containing concise biographical information about 13,000 notable Canadians. It is published and distributed annually by Grey House Publishing Canada with a bright-red binding, and an online searchable version is also available through a subscription. The online, searchable, electronic version of "Canadian Who's Who" includes more than 11,000 archived biographies, in addition to the 13,000 biographies found in the 2014/2015 print edition. Every year the publisher invites new individuals to complete questionnaires from which new biographies are compiled. The publisher also gives those already listed in earlier editions an opportunity to update their biographies. After reading the paragraphs above, choose the best answer for the entity that related to 'from lowbrow to nobrow' with the relationship of 'publication date'. Choices: - 1 - 13 - 1966 - 2005 - 2010 - 2011 - 2013
2005

Information: - Brant Point Light is a lighthouse located on Nantucket Island. The station was established in 1746, automated in 1965, and is still in operation. The current tower was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 28, 1987; it has the distinction of being the tenth light on the point, in addition to several range lights. Four of the others burned or blew down, two were condemned, two were unsatisfactory, and the remaining one stands unused. - A lighthouse is a tower, building, or other type of structure designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lenses, and to serve as a navigational aid for maritime pilots at sea or on inland waterways. - The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation. A property listed in the National Register, or located within a National Register Historic District, may qualify for tax incentives derived from the total value of expenses incurred preserving the property. - The Nantucket Harbor Range Lights are range lights which were built in 1908 to guide vessels through the narrow channel to Nantucket Harbor . They replaced an older arrangement , known as Nantucket Range Lights , which became unusable when the current Brant Point Light replaced the 1856 Brant Point Light tower . They display red and white vertical striped daymarks , type KRW , one of the twelve combinations used by the Coast Guard . It is not known why the official USCG name of the front light , Nantucket Reef Range Front Light includes the word '' reef '' . After reading the paragraphs above, choose the best answer for the entity that related to 'nantucket harbor range lights' with the relationship of 'instance of'. Choices: - building - district - government - historic district - island - lighthouse - list - may - official - point - property - range - system - tax - tower - value
lighthouse