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,Language Between Lyricism and Corporatism: George Saunders’s New Sincerity,on of a character’s authentic self. Instead, Saunders joins other writers of his generation in exploring what I term a “New Sincerity,” while indexing that new form of sincerity closely to issues of class.

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,Everyday Zombies: Ethics and the Contemporary in “Sea Oak” and “Brad Carrigan, American”,mines how the sources of this nihilism are partially to be found within neoliberalism. “Brad Carrigan, American” embodies a particular use of the uncanny that derives from the philosophical dilemmas posed by temporal “simultaneity,” problems largely inherited from the Holocaust’s disruption of Western ontology and ethics.

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,“A Job to Do”*: George Saunders on, and at, Work,highly stratified and compulsively monitored workplaces. Too often “beyond broke,” his (usually male) protagonists endure all manner of emotional and physical humiliations in order to pay their bills. This essay explores Saunders’s interest in what sociologists call emotional labor and also consider

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,Language Between Lyricism and Corporatism: George Saunders’s New Sincerity,hor’s attitude to the kinds of lyrical language often taken to be literature’s means of transcending such jargon. Yet Saunders’s stories make uncomfortable connections between high literary expression and modes of spectatorship that turn the pain of others into an abstraction. What Saunders offers i

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