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The fantastically natural world of George Saunders
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Finbow, Steve |
| Copyright Year | 2006 |
| Abstract | In the bio on the inside page of his first collection of short stories CivilWarLand in bad decline it states that Mr Saunders “is a geo-physical engineer in Rochester, N.Y.” That is apt for a writer like George Saunders. Geophysics is the study of “the physics of the earth”. Physics is the “branch of science concerned with the nature and properties of matter and energy” or “the physical properties and phenomena of something”. The engineered fictional worlds of CivilWarLand in bad decline explore the physical properties and phenomena of a narrative earth slightly out of kilter; something is not quite right, but everything is oddly familiar. Saunders subtly undermines and transfigures |
| Starting Page | 5 |
| Ending Page | 5 |
| Page Count | 1 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.4102/td.v2i2.291 |
| Volume Number | 2 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://dspace.nwu.ac.za/bitstream/handle/10394/3899/transd_v2_n2_a18.pdf?isAllowed=y&sequence=1 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://td-sa.net/index.php/td/article/download/291/102 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.4102/td.v2i2.291 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |