Vievskaya, Natalia2024-05-202024-05-202021-06-01https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14468/13371This work analyses the type of satire that George Saunders employs in his short fiction, in particular in its relation to the postmodernist movement and postmodernist theories on satire and its use in literature. It especially focuses on the theories of “degenerative,” “diffused” and “sincere” satire as the dominant types in contemporary American fiction. As a result, it examines how George Saunders’s distinct nature of satire is capable of generating an affective response in readers towards characters, simultaneously destabilizing and undermining preconceived ideas and beliefs which are based on well-established cultural myths and discourses.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessproyecto fin de carreraGeorge SaunderssatireAmerican postmodern fictionempathymetanarratives