Kazuo Ishiguro Contemporary Critical Perspectives

by Matthews, Sean; Groes, Sebastian; Murakami, Haruki

• ISBN13: 9780826497246
• ISBN10: 0826497241
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-04-01
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

This is an up-to-date reader of critical essays on Kazuo Ishiguro by leading international academics.

Author Biography

Sean Matthews is Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature and Director of the D. H. Lawrence Research Centre, at the University of Nottingham, UK. Sebastian Groes is Lecturer in English at Liverpool Hope University, UK.

Table of Contents

Foreword: On Having a Contemporary Like Kazuo Ishiguro	p. vii
Series Editors' Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. x
Contributors	p. xi
Chronology of Kazuo Ishiguro's Life	p. xiv
Introduction: 'Your Words Open Windows for Me': The Art of Kazuo Ishiguro	p. 1
'Somewhere Just Beneath the Surface of Things': Kazuo Ishiguro's Short Fiction	p. 9
Strange Reads: Kazuo Ishiguro's A Pale View of Hills and An Artist of the Floating World in Japan	p. 20
'Like the Gateway to Another World': Kazuo Ishiguro's Screenwriting	p. 32
History, Memory, and the Construction of Gender in Kazuo Ishiguro's A Pale View of Hills	p. 45
Artifice and Absorption: The Modesty of Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day	p. 54
'To Give a Name, Is That Still to Give?': Footballers and Film Actors in Kazuo Ishiguro's The Unconsoled	p. 67
Kazuo Ishiguro's When We Were Orphans: Narration and Detection in the Case of Christopher Banks	p. 79
Controlling Time: Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go	p. 91
Afterword: On First Reading Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go	p. 104
'I'm Sorry I Can't Say More': An Interview with Kazuo Ishiguro	p. 114
References	p. 126
Further Reading	p. 133
Index	p. 149
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