George Saunders
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| - | + | '''George Saunders''' (born December 2, 1958) is an American writer of short stories, essays, novellas, children's books, and novels. His writing has appeared in ''[[The New Yorker]]'', ''[[Harper's Magazine|Harper's]]'', ''[[McSweeney's]]'', and ''[[GQ (magazine)|GQ]]''. He also contributed a weekly column, ''American Psyche'', to the weekend magazine of ''[[The Guardian]]'' between 2006 and 2008. | |
| - | '''Combinatory literature''' is a type of [[fiction]] [[writing]] in which the author relies and draws on concepts outside of general writing practices and applies them to the [[Creativity|creative process]]. This method of writing challenges conventional [[Structuralism|structuralist]] processes and approaches. To do this, the author investigates alternate [[Discipline (academia)|disciplines]] outside the common channels of creative writing and literature, notably [[mathematics]], [[science]] and other [[humanities]]. The author then applies constraints or influences from the new concepts to their writing process. This inspires creativity in literature regarding form, structure, language and narrative plot, among other things. The emergence of combinatory literature is largely the result of philosophers and intellectuals who have been concerned with the interrelated nature of disciplines and the way these combine to affect brain function. Notable proponents of combinatory literature include [[T. S. Eliot]], [[Georges Perec]] and [[Italo Calvino]], whilst modern writers like [[George Saunders]] have credited having a multiple disciplinary background as influential on their work. | + | |
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George Saunders (born December 2, 1958) is an American writer of short stories, essays, novellas, children's books, and novels. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, McSweeney's, and GQ. He also contributed a weekly column, American Psyche, to the weekend magazine of The Guardian between 2006 and 2008.
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