Doubt in the below TC question

GRE Verbal Problem Solving
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The novelist devotes so much time to avid descriptions of his characters’ clothes that the reader soon feels that such (i) __________ concerns, although worthy of attention, have superseded any more directly literary aims.

A didactic
B syntactical
C irrelevant
D sartorial
E frivolous

Could anyone help me with the above problem?

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A - out of contex
B- same as literal
C & E are the same

So, only D fits

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Could you explain what the last part of the sentence meant " have superseded any more directly literary aims"?

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I think the question is pointing that for a novelist , they should put literary aims foremost rather than replacing that with secondary things like describing his character’s clothing in detail .