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020 $a9780230232389 (pbk.)
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050 00 $aPR6059.S5$bZ75 2011
082 00 $a823/.914$223
084 $aLIT004120$aLIT006000$aLIT000000$2bisacsh
245 00 $aKazuo Ishiguro :$bnew critical visions of the novels /$c[edited by] Sebastian Groes, Barry Lewis.
260 $aHoundmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK ;$aNew York :$bPalgrave Macmillan,$cc2011.
300 $axvii, 288 p. ;$c22 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 265-279) and index.
520 $a"This edited collection of new and insightful critical essays brings together a wide range of academics whose work stages a forum exploring the key aspects of Kazuo Ishiguro's novels. Featuring an interview with Ishiguro, this groundbreaking book is ideal for anyone studying the work of this major contemporary author"--$cProvided by publisher.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: -- 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 Remains of 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.
600 10 $aIshiguro, Kazuo,$d1954-$xCriticism and interpretation.
650 7 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh$2bisacsh.
650 7 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory$2bisacsh.
650 7 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / General$2bisacsh.
700 1 $aGroes, Sebastian.
700 1 $aLewis, Barry,$d1961-
856 42 $3Cover image$uhttp://www.netread.com/jcusers2/bk1388/389/9780230232389/image/lgcover.9780230232389.jpg