Anxiety of obsolescence, the: the american novel in the age of television
Auteur :
Fitzpatrick, Kathleen
Éditeur :
Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN :
9780826515193
Date de publication :
14 juil. 2006
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 cm
Poids :
454 g
Format :
Cloth over boards
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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.