4. Michael Basseler “Narrative Empathy in George Saunders’s Short Fiction”

An introduction to the ideas of “New Sincerity” with a look at Eve’s chapter from the Routledge Companion to Twenty-First Century Fiction (2019) which sets out  “New Sincerity” as a reaction to postmodernism of the 1990s.

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