Kazuo Ishiguro : New Critical Visions of the Novels /: New Critical Visions of the Novels. (2011)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Sebastian Groes, Barry Lewis, Sean Matthews.
• Authors: Groes, Sebastian; Lewis, Barry; Matthews, Sean
• Contents: 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: THE EARLY '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 My Own 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 Remainsof the Day: 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.
• Publisher Details: London : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2011
• Extent: 1 online resource (312 pages)
• Subjects: Literary Criticism -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literature: history & criticism
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781350308824
• Related ISBNs: 135030882X; 9780230232372
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