Kazuo Ishiguro
Subtitle: new critical visions of the novels
By: [edited by] Sebastian Groes, Barry Lewis
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer; Red Globe Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780230232389
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory; LITERARY CRITICISM / General
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: List of Illustrations; title: List of Abbreviations; title: Preface; B.Shaffer; title: Acknowledgements; title: Notes on Contributors; title: Introduction: 'It's Good Manners Really': Kazuo Ishiguro and the Ethic of Empathy; S.Groes, B.Lewis; title: PART I: CRITICAL OVERVIEWS; title: Kazuo Ishiguro's Not Too Late Modernism; P.Waugh; title: The Pedagogics of Liminality: Rites of Passage in the Work of Kazuo Ishiguro; V.Sage; title: Lost and Found: On the Japanese Translations of Kazuo Ishiguro; M.Shibata; title: 'One Word from You Could Alter the Course of Everything': Discourse and Identity in the Work of Kazuo Ishiguro; K.Stamirowska; title: PART II: THE EARLY 'JAPANESE' WORKS; title: 'In the Best of Faith': Kazuo Ishiguro's An Artist if the Floating World in Japan; M.Sugano; title: 'Cemeteries are No Places for Young People': The Representation of the Child in Kazuo Ishiguro's Early Works; C.Bennett; title: PART III: THE REMAINS OF THE DAY; title: '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; title: Novelistic Practice and Ethical Philosophy in Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day; L.Cooper; title: Reading Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day: Working Through England's Traumatic Past as a Critique of Thacherism; C.Berberich; title: PART IV: The Unconsoled; title: Into the Labyrinth: Reading Ishiguro's Surrealist Poetics in The Unconsoled; J.Baxter; title: Waiting for the performance to Begin: Kazuo Ishiguro's Musical magination in The Unconsoled and Nocturnes; G.Smyth; title: Into Ever Stranger Territories: Kazuo Ishiguro's The Unconsoled as Minor Literature; T.Jarvis; title: PART V: When We Were Orphans; title: 'In the End it has to Shatter': Ironic Doubleness of Kazuo Ishiguro's When We Were Orphans; C.Ringrose; title: When We Were Orphans: The Double Bind and the Vocational Imperative; A.Webley; title: PART VI: NEVER LET ME GO; title: The Concertina Effect in Kazuo ishiguro's Never Let Me Go; B.Lewis; title: Something of a Lost Corner: The Representation of East Anglia in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go; S.Groes; title: 'Okay, this is as far as we can go': Scientific Discourse in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go;L.Lochner; title: Never Let Me Go and 'Outsider' Science Fiction; A.Sawyer; title: The New Seriousness: Kazuo Ishiguro in Conversation with Sebastian Groes; title: Bibliography; title: Index.