Kazuo Ishiguro

Published by Manchester University Press 2023

Kazuo Ishiguro

Edited by: Kristian Shaw and Peter Sloane

In the series Twenty-First Century Perspectives

https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526157546

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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

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Front Matter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Dedication Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Series editors’ preface Kristian Shaw and Sara Upstone Publicly Available Download PDF	xii
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	xiv
Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	xv
Introduction Kristian Shaw and Peter Sloane Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1 Diaspora, trauma, spectrality and world literary writing in A Pale View of Hills Emily Horton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
2 Eloquence and empathy in A Pale View of Hills and An Artist of the Floating World Cynthia F. Wong Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	40
3 Ishiguro’s tempered presentational realism and practice Rebecca Karni Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
4 ‘An inevitable course’ Political responsibility in The Remains of the Day Sara Upstone Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	84
5 Klara in the junkyard On loneliness in The Unconsoled Bruce Robbins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
6 Novel dysfunction in When We Were Orphans Andrew Bennett Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	126
7 Empathy and the ethics of posthuman reading in Never Let Me Go Peter Sloane Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	146
8 Nocturnes, hope and ‘that croony nostalgia music’ Yugin Teo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	170
9 Disinterring the English sublime Haunted atmospherics in The Buried Giant Kristian Shaw Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	188
10 Klara and the humans Agency, Hannah Arendt and forgiveness Robert Eaglestone Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	212
11 Kazuo Ishiguro’s film and television scriptwriting Anni Shen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	248

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Language: English
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 272
Keywords: Ishiguro; Literature; Cosmopolitan; British; Contemporary; Twenty-first century; Global; Memory; Japanese Culture; Film and Television

eBook

Published: March 14, 2023
ISBN: 9781526157546

Kazuo Ishiguro

Front Matter

Dedication

Contents

Contributors

Series editors’ preface

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Introduction

1 Diaspora, trauma, spectrality and world literary writing in A Pale View of Hills

2 Eloquence and empathy in A Pale View of Hills and An Artist of the Floating World

3 Ishiguro’s tempered presentational realism and practice

4 ‘An inevitable course’

5 Klara in the junkyard

6 Novel dysfunction in When We Were Orphans

7 Empathy and the ethics of posthuman reading in Never Let Me Go

8 Nocturnes, hope and ‘that croony nostalgia music’

9 Disinterring the English sublime

10 Klara and the humans

11 Kazuo Ishiguro’s film and television scriptwriting

Index