Anxiety Of Obsolescence The American No
Vanderbilt University Press
The Anxiety of ObsolescenceThe American Novel in the Age of Television\nAuthor(s): Kathleen Fitzpatrick\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Vanderbilt University Press, United States\nImprint: Vanderbilt University Press\nISBN-13: 9780826515193, 978-0826515193\nSynopsis\nIt 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 writing against? Fitzpatrick examines the ways in which the anxiety ab.
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