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5.0 out of 5 stars The Novel ... not quite dead yet, August 10, 2009
This review is from: The Anxiety of Obsolescence: The American Novel in the Age of Television (Paperback)
Kathleen Fitzpatrick is a skilled and entertaining polemicist against those contemporary cultural "champions" (e.g. Birkerts, Postman, Bloom) who have attempted to defend literature, and "high" culture in general, against certain death at the hands of television and the Internet. Fitzpatrick asks, "Cui bono?" of these premature obituarists, with fascinating results. This is a richly researched, dense and thought-provoking book that is certain to please those interested in advanced literary and cultural criticism. The book is well worth buying for its remarks on Thomas Pynchon and Don DeLillo alone, as an approachable, illuminating companion to their novels.

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The Anxiety of Obsolescence: The American Novel in the Age of Television
The Anxiety of Obsolescence: The American Novel in the Age of Television by Kathleen Fitzpatrick (Paperback - July 14, 2006)
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