The Anxiety of Obsolescence: The American Novel in the Age of Television

by KathleenFitzpatrick (Author)

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  Paperback
  2006

  $50.03

  It almost goes without saying that the rise in popularity of television has killed the audience for serious literature. This book 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.