George Saunders

George Saunders
Author: Philip Coleman
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2017-03-25
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3319499327

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 œuvre. Coinciding with the release of the Saunders’ first novel, Lincoln in the Bardo (2017), George Saunders: Critical Essays is the first book-length consideration of a major contemporary author’s work. It is essential reading for anyone interested in twenty-first century fiction.

Japanese Morphophonemics

Japanese Morphophonemics
Author: Junko Itō
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2003
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9780262590235

The first book-length treatment of Japanese phonology from the perspective of Optimality Theory.

North Haven Annals

North Haven Annals
Author: Sheldon Brainerd Thorpe
Publisher:
Total Pages: 472
Release: 1892
Genre: North Haven (Conn.)
ISBN:

Magical Practice in the Latin West

Magical Practice in the Latin West
Author: Richard Lindsay Gordon
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 737
Release: 2010
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004179046

Most studies of Graeco-Roman magic focus on the Greek texts. Stimulated by important recent finds of Latin curse-tablets, this collection of essays for the first time tries to define the nature and extent of the originality of magical practice in the Latin West

The Brain-Dead Megaphone

The Brain-Dead Megaphone
Author: George Saunders
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2012-05-14
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 1408822520

In this, his first collection of essays, Saunders trains his eye on the real world rather than the fictional and reveals it to be brimming with wonderful, marvellous strangeness. As he faces a political and cultural reality saturated with lazy media, false promises and political doublespeak, Saunders invokes the wisdom of American literary heroes Twain, Vonnegut and Barthelme and inspires us to re-examine our assumptions about the world we live in, as we struggle to discover what is really there.

Congratulations, by the Way

Congratulations, by the Way
Author: George Saunders
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 64
Release: 2014-01-01
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1408859343

An inspiring message from the inaugural Folio Prize winner, George Saunders, one of today's most influential and original writers