Kazuo Ishiguro: new critical visions of the novels

Kazuo Ishiguro: new critical visions of the novels

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This edited collection of new and insightful critical essays brings together a wide range of academics whose work stages a forum exploring the key aspects of Kazuo Ishiguro's novels. Featuring an interview with Ishiguro, this groundbreaking book is ideal for anyone studying the work of this major contemporary author. SEBASTIAN GROES is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Roehampton University, UK. . BARRY LEWIS is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Sunderland, UK. INDICE: List of Illustrations - List of Abbreviations - Preface; 'B.Shaffer - 'Acknowledgements - Notes on Contributors - Introduction: 'It's Good Manners Really': Kazuo Ishiguro and the Ethic of Empathy; 'S.Groes' &' B.Lewis - 'PART I: CRITICAL OVERVIEWS - Kazuo Ishiguro's Not Too Late Modernism; 'P.Waugh - 'The Pedagogics of Liminality: Rites of Passage in the Work of Kazuo Ishiguro; 'V.Sage - 'Lost and Found: On the Japanese Translations of Kazuo Ishiguro; 'M.Shibata - ''One Word from You Could Alter the Course of Everything': Discourse and Identity in the Work of Kazuo Ishiguro; 'K.Stamirowska - 'PART II: THEEARLY 'JAPANESE' WORKS - 'In the Best of Faith': Kazuo Ishiguro's 'An Artist if the Floating World' in Japan; 'M.Sugano - ''Cemeteries are No Places for Young People': The Representation of the Child in Kazuo Ishiguro's Early Works; 'C.Bennett - 'PART III: 'THE REMAINS OF THE DAY' - 'I Can't Even Say I made MyOwn Mistakes': the Ethics of Genre in Kazuo Ishiguro's 'The Remains of the Day'; 'M.Hammond - 'Novelistic Practice and Ethical Philosophy in Kazuo Ishiguro's 'The Remains of the Day; L.Cooper - 'Reading Ishiguro's 'The Remains of theDay: 'Working Through England's Traumatic Past as a Critique of Thacherism; 'C.Berberich' - PART IV: 'THE UNCONSOLED' - Into the Labyrinth: Reading Ishiguro's Surrealist Poetics in 'The Unconsoled'; 'J.Baxter - 'Waiting for the performance to Begin: Kazuo Ishiguro's Musical magination in 'The Unconsoled 'and 'Nocturnes; G.Smyth - 'Into Ever Stranger Territories: Kazuo Ishiguro's 'The Unconsoled 'as Minor Literature; 'T.Jarvis - 'PART V: 'WHEN WE WERE ORPHANS' - 'In the End it has to Shatter': Ironic Doubleness of Kazuo Ishiguro's 'When We Were Orphans; C.Ringrose - When We Were Orphans: 'The Double Bind and the Vocational Imperative; 'A.Webley' - PART VI: 'NEVER LET ME GO' - The Concertina Effect in Kazuo ishiguro's 'Never Let Me Go'; 'B.Lewis - 'Something of a Lost Corner: The Representation of East Anglia in Kazuo Ishiguro's 'Never Let Me Go';'S.Groes - ''Okay, this is as far as we can go': Scientific Discourse in Kazuo Ishiguro's 'Never Let Me Go;' 'L.Lochner - Never Let Me Go 'and 'Outsider' Science Fiction; 'A.Sawyer' - The New Seriousness: Kazuo Ishiguro in Conversation with Sebastian Groes - Bibliography - Index -

  • ISBN: 978-0-230-23237-2
  • Editorial: Palgrave MacM
  • Encuadernacion: Cartoné
  • Páginas: 312
  • Fecha Publicación: 12/09/2011
  • Nº Volúmenes: 1
  • Idioma: Inglés