It 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...
It almost goes without saying that the rise in popularity of television has killed the audience for -serious- literature. This is such a given that...
It 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...
It almost goes without saying that the rise in popularity of television has killed the audience for -serious- literature. This is such a given that...
Academic institutions are facing a crisis in scholarly publishing at multiple levels: presses are stressed as never before, library budgets are squeezed, faculty are having difficulty publishing their work, and promotion and tenure committees are facing a range of new ways of working without a clear sense of how to understand and evaluate them.
Planned Obsolescence is both a provocation to think more broadly about the academy's future and an argument for reconceiving that future in more communally-oriented ways....
Choice's Outstanding Academic Title list for 2013
Academic institutions are facing a crisis in scholarly publishing at mul...
