George Saunders
Subtitle: critical essays
By: Philip Coleman, Steve Gronert Ellerhoff, editors
Contributors: Society for the Study of the Short Story
Series: American literature readings in the 21st century; American literature readings in the 21st century
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9783319499314; 9783319499321
Subjects: Criticism, interpretation; Interviews; American Authors
Description: "This timely volume explores the signal contribution George Saunders has made to the development of the short story form in books ranging from CivilWarLand in Bad Decline (1996) to Tenth of December (2013). The book brings together a team of scholars from around the world to explore topics ranging from Saunders's treatment of work and religion to biopolitics and the limits of the short story form. It also includes an interview with Saunders specially conducted for the volume, and a preliminary bibliography of his published works and critical responses to an expanding and always exciting creative oeuvre."--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: "This volume has its basis in a panel dedicated to the work of George Saunders held at the thirteenth biennial conference of the Society for the Study of the Short Story at the University of Vienna, Austria, in the Summer of 2014."--Page xi.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-266, 273-286) and index.
Table of contents: title: "A Job to Do": George Saunders on, and at, work / Kasia Boddy; title: Horning in: language, subordination and freedom in the short fiction of George Saunders / Clare Hayes-Brady; title: Language between lyricism ad corporatism: George Saunders's new sincerity / Adam Kelly; title: "Hope that, in Future, All is well": American exceptionalism and hopes for resistance in two stories by George Saunders / Gillian Elizabeth Moore; title: Hanging by a thread in the homeland: the Four Institutional Monologues of George Saunders / Richard E. Lee; title: Biopolitical dystopias, bureaucratic carnivores, synthetic primitives: "Pastoralia" as human zoo / David Huebert; title: Ghosts and theme parks: the supernatural and the artificial in George Saunders's short stories / Dana Del George; title: The absent presence of the Deus Absconditus in the work of George Saunders / Aidan Cottrell-Boyce; title: Narrative empathy in George Saunders's short fiction / Michael Basseler; title: Cruel inventions: George Saunders's literary Darkenfloxx / Jurrit Daalder; title: Dreaming and realizing "The Semplica Girl Diaries" : a post-Jungian reading / Steve Gronert Ellerhoff; title: Everyday zombies: ethics and the contemporary in "Sea Oak" and "Brad Carrigan, American" / Michael Trussler; title: "Third-person Ventriloquism": microdialogues and polyphony in George Saunders's "Victory Lap" / Robert Cameron Wilson; title: "A Little at a Time. And Iteratively": a conversation with George Saunders / Steve Gronert Ellerhoff; title: George Saunders: a prelimanary bibliography / Emily Bourke, Philip Coleman, and Steve Gronert Ellerhoff.