Kazuo Ishiguro

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Manchester University Press, 2000 - Literary Criticism - 191 pages

How Japanese is Ishiguro?
What role does memory and unreliability play in his narratives?
Why was The Unconsoled (1995) perceived to be such a radical break from the earlier novels?. The first complete study to consider all of Ishiguro's work from A pale view of the hills (1982) to When we were Orphans (2000), including his short stories and television plays. Explores the centrality of dignity and displacement in Ishiguro's vision, and teases out the connotations of home and homelessness in his fictions. Invaluable for students at all levels, especially as The Remains of the Day by Ishiguro is a set text at GCSE and A Level.

 

Contents

Contexts and intertexts
1
A Pale View of Hills
18
An Artist of the Floating World
45
The Remains of the Day
73
Critical overview and conclusion
129
NOTES
152
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
171
Copyright

Other editions - View all

Kazuo Ishiguro: New Critical Visions of the Novels
Sebastian Groes,Barry Lewis,Sean Matthews
Limited preview - 2011
Kazuo Ishiguro: New Critical Visions of the Novels
Sebastian Groes,Barry Lewis,Sean Matthews
Limited preview - 2011
Kazuo Ishiguro
Barry Lewis
Snippet view - 2001
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Common terms and phrases

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References to this book

Kazuo Ishiguro
Cynthia F. Wong
Snippet view - 2005

About the author (2000)

Barry Lewis is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Sunderland.

Bibliographic information

TitleKazuo Ishiguro
Contemporary World Writers, ISSN 1754-5838
Kazuo Ishiguro, Barry Lewis
AuthorBarry Lewis
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherManchester University Press, 2000
ISBN0719055148, 9780719055140
Length191 pages
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Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Literary Criticism / General
  
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