Kazuo Ishiguro

by Kristian Shaw (Editor), Peter Sloane (Editor)

Overview

A comprehensive collection of newly commissioned essays from world-leading Kazuo Ishiguro scholars which offers chapters on each of the novels (including the first publication on Klara and the Sun (2021)), short fictions, and screenplays, Kazuo Ishiguro: Twenty First Century Fictions offers a critical reappraisal of the 2017 Nobel Laureate while also uncovering important new thematic and stylistic insights

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781526157522
Publisher:	Manchester University Press
Publication date:	03/13/2024
Series:	Twenty-First Century Perspectives
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	272
File size:	679 KB

About the Author

Kristian Shaw is Associate Professor in English Literature at the University of Lincoln

Peter Sloane is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Buckingham

Table of Contents

Introduction: ‘This is the way it feels to me’: the writings of Kazuo Ishiguro – Kristian Shaw and Peter Sloane
1 Diaspora, trauma, spectrality and world literary writing in A Pale View of Hills – Emily Horton
2 Eloquence and empathy in A Pale View of Hills and An Artist of the Floating World – Cynthia F. Wong
3 Ishiguro's tempered presentational realism and practice – Rebecca Karni
4 ‘An inevitable course’: political responsibility in The Remains of the Day – Sara Upstone
5 Klara in the junkyard: on loneliness in The Unconsoled – Bruce Robbins
6 Novel dysfunction in When We Were Orphans – Andrew Bennett
7 Empathy and the ethics of posthuman reading in Never Let Me Go – Peter Sloane
8 Nocturnes, hope, and ‘that croony nostalgia music’ – Yugin Teo
9 Disinterring the English sublime: haunted atmospherics in The Buried Giant – Kristian Shaw
10 Klara and the humans: agency, Hannah Arendt and forgiveness – Robert Eaglestone
11 Kazuo Ishiguro’s film and TV scriptwriting – Anni Shen
Afterword – Sebastian Groes
Index

Editorial Reviews

'Shaw and Sloan have compiled a rich and wide-ranging collection on 2017 Nobel Literature Laureate Kazuo Ishiguro... This edited work adds to and extends the criticism of Ishiguro’s work with novel and fresh perspectives, and will be of interest to those who read and study world and comparative literatures.'
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