Recent American public discourse–strongly impacted by the 2008 economic collapse, the
nation's plodding recovery from it, and the Occupy Wall Street Movement's popularization of …

George Saunders's postmodern fiction serves as the exemplar for early twenty-first century
American satire's new attention to affect, to empathy specifically, and the example afforded …

Commentators on the fiction of George Saunders have consistently remarked on his
scathing satire of corporate jargon. Less has been said about the author's attitude to the …

This essay explores the ethics and aesthetics of George Saunders's work, and particularly
the ways in which his short stories engage the reader in a compassionate relation with the …

In the overlapping periods of postmodernism and resurgent modernism, a new mode of
satire has emerged—what this article calls metamodern satire—that bridges the gap …

Abstract This chapter explores George Saunders' award-winning first novel, Lincoln in the
Bardo, as both a work of historical fiction and an experimental tour de force. Hayes-Brady …

Since the publication of CivilWarLand in Bad Decline in 1996, George Saunders has risen to
prominence as a uniquely sensitive chronicler of American life. I use “sensitive” because his …

Resumen In late 19th Century America, the elite of wealthy New York families were united
by the Patriarch's Balls. The Society of the Patriarch organized lavish balls to foster a content …

Abstract With reference to Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad (2010), Amy
Waldman's The Submission (2011) and Teju Cole's Open City (2011), the first two parts of …

Drawing on what American short story writer and novelist George Saunders has described
as the urge toward kindness in his work, as well as its myriad allusions to Christian …