The Anxiety of Obsolescence
The American Novel in the Age of Television
It almost goes without saying that the rise in popularity of television has killed the audience for serious literature. This is such a given that reading Fitzpatrick's challenge to this notion can be very disconcerting, as she traces the ways in which a small cadre of writers of serious literature--DeLillo, Pynchon, and Franzen, for instance--have propagated this myth in order to set themselves up as the last bastions of good writing. Fitzpatrick first explores whether serious literature was ever as all-pervasive as critics of the television culture claim and then asks the obvious question: what, or who, exactly, are these guys defending good…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8265-1520-9
- EAN: 9780826515209
- Produktnummer: 2210235
- Verlag: Vanderbilt University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Seitenangabe: 264 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm 408 g
- Abbildungen: index, bibliography
- Gewicht: 408
- Sonstiges: Undergraduate
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