Overview
- Fills a scholarly gap as the first collection of essays on famed author, George Saunders
- Offers a panoply of approaches and discussions revolving around Saunders' canon, ranging from feminism to biopolitics
- Positions Saunders' still-continuing career within the literary traditions and history of contemporary literature
Part of the book series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century (ALTC)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Reviews
“Read in sequence, these essays build their own story, from the meanings of “work” in George Saunders’s art to the representations of a supersaturated consciousness in his polyphonic monologues. It’s about the moral imperatives behind the mind-tingling brilliance, the funny-sad humor and soulful grotesqueries, of a major American satirist, but it’s also about the practice of imaginative scholarship, and, not accidentally, about the inexhaustible wonders of the short story form.” (Susan Lohafer, Professor Emerita, University of Iowa, author of “Reading for Storyness” (2003))
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Steve Gronert Ellerhoff completed a PhD in the School of English, Trinity College Dublin, in 2014. His thesis was published as Post-Jungian Psychology and the Short Stories of Ray Bradbury and Kurt Vonnegut: Golden Apples of the Monkey House (2016). He is also the author of a novel, Time’s Laughingstocks (2013), a collection of short stories, Tales From the Internet (2015), and other fiction appearing online and in print.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: George Saunders
Book Subtitle: Critical Essays
Editors: Philip Coleman, Steve Gronert Ellerhoff
Series Title: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49932-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-49931-4Published: 31 March 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84277-6Published: 07 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-49932-1Published: 25 March 2017
Series ISSN: 2634-579X
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5803
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 292
Topics: Contemporary Literature, North American Literature, Fiction