Literature has become obsolete. Literature has become meaningless and redundant. Literature has died – and this is coming from an English student with a concerning list of books to be read. The death of literature is not a new concept. One of the earliest proponents had brought the death of the novel-form to the attention of readers as far back as in 1925. José Ortega y Gasset addresses  literature’s impending death in his Decline of the Novel  (1925). Other media theorists a