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The anxiety of obsolescence : the American novel in the age of television
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The anxiety of obsolescence : the American novel in the age of television

Author: Kathleen Fitzpatrick
Publisher: Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, 2006.
Edition/Format:   Book : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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Presents an examination of the claim by some writers, such as DeLillo, Pynchon, and Franzen, that the audience for serious literature has dwindled due to television, and posits the question of which cultural or social functions might benefit from such a claim, such as white male hegemony.
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Fitzpatrick, Kathleen, 1967-
Anxiety of obsolescence.
Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, 2006
(OCoLC)607671765
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Kathleen Fitzpatrick
ISBN: 0826515193 0826515207 9780826515209 9780826515193
OCLC Number: 62281421
Description: x, 268 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Introduction: The anxiety of obsolescence --
Three discourses on the age of television --
Machine --
Spectacle --
Network --
Obsolescence, the marginal, and the popular.
Responsibility: Kathleen Fitzpatrick.
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Presents an examination of the claim by some writers, such as DeLillo, Pynchon, and Franzen, that the audience for serious literature has dwindled due to television, and posits the question of which cultural or social functions might benefit from such a claim, such as white male hegemony.

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