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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Kazuo Ishiguro"”.
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The Narrators and Narratees of Kazuo Ishiguro
… thesis examines the narratees of three novels by Kazuo Ishiguro: <em>An Artist of the Floating World</em>, <em>The Remains of the Day</em>, and <em>Never Let Me Go</em>. In each novel, a first person narrator directs his or her story toward an unidentified narratee. Through their narration, the …
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Unlived Lives in Twentieth Century Narrative: Henry James, Elizabeth Bowen, Kazuo Ishiguro
… (1843-1916), Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) and Kazuo Ishiguro (1954-) – this thesis takes up the unexplored influence of ‘unlived lives’ on the form and content of twentieth century literature, and examines how each of these writers conceived of the wars of the modern era as posing challenges to …
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A matter of time? Temporality, agency and the cosmopolitan in the novels of Kazuo Ishiguro and Timothy Mo
The emergence of novelists such as Kazuo Ishiguro and Timothy Mo in the final decades of the twentieth century has often been taken as evidence of an increasing multiculturalism both in Britain and the wider world, as well as in British literature itself. With their dual British-Asian heritage and …
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Rewriting history : postmodern and postcolonial negotiations in the fiction of J.G. Farrell, Timothy Mo, Kazuo Ishiguro and Salman Rushdie
… of four novelists: J. G. Farrell, Timothy Mo, Kazuo Ishiguro and Salman Rushdie. I argue that their work occupies a particular position that is both within contemporary British fiction, yet at one remove from it. Their work is situated within the context of critiques of history that are the …
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Narrative Topography: Fictions of Country, City, and Suburb in the Work of Virginia Woolf, W. G. Sebald, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Ian McEwan
… of cultural memory. The third chapter focuses on Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go, a novel in which a cloned human being uses descriptions of landscape to express and, more often, to suppress the physical and emotional pain associated with her position in society. By emphasizing his narrator's …
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Funneling chaos: Interiority in the landscapes of dystopian fiction
… Through an analysis of Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro, Divergent by Veronica Roth, and The Stand by Stephen King, this study examines how interiority is achieved through point of view, layered emotions, and desire and misbelief. This study not only highlights the role of interiority in …
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A Hesitation Of Things
… Literary figures, such as Kafka, Proust and Kazuo Ishiguro play significant parts while W.G. Sebald and Walter Benjamin are referred to as historians valued for the quality and style of their writing as much as for their scholarship. Meanwhile, Shakespeare’s Hamlet recurs and, through …
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The Leap : Existential Storytelling and the Knight's Perspective
… as diverse as Johannes Brahms, Cervantes, Kazuo Ishiguro, George R. R. Martin, J.K. Rowling and Sophocles.
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Freedom and the city: contemporary British fiction and the cultural politics of disenfranchisement
… Hanif Kureishi, J.G. Ballard, Ian McEwan, Kazuo Ishiguro and Maggie Gee—I uncover the process by which British writers working after Thatcher came to believe that one of the consequences of this experiment with freedom has been a disastrous abandonment of politics in its formal sense: as a …
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TWILIGHT OF THE TOFFS: FALL OF A CASTE, RISE OF A MYTH
… for my study: Ian McEwan‟s Atonement (2001), Kazuo Ishiguro‟s The Remains of the Day (1989) and Evelyn Waugh‟s Brideshead Revisited (1945). My main critical perspective is a structuralist one, namely that of Roland Barthes in his Mythologies (1956). I show how, notwithstanding the period in …
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“New People”: Memory, Leisure, and Identity at the British Seaside in Last Orders and the Remains of the Day
… of the Day (1989) and Last Orders (1996), Kazuo Ishiguro and Graham Swift tie explorations of memory, interpersonal relationships, and individual identity to journeys to the sea. To articulate how their characters view the seaside not only as a mode of “recuperation and liberation from the …
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Return to the scene of the crime: The returnee detective and postcolonial crime fiction
… The primary texts are When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro, Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje, The Long Night of White Chickens by Francisco Goldman, Red Dust by Gillian Slovo and Crossbones by Nuruddin Farah. My theoretical framework combines genre theory and postcolonial theory. By combining …
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Concepts of the global in contemporary culture : figuring the totality
… Don DeLillo, Félix Guattari, Michael Hardt, Kazuo Ishiguro, Fredric Jameson, Charlie Kaufman, Patrick Keiller, David Lynch, Antonio Negri, Peter Sloterdijk, Ali Smith, and Bernard Stiegler. The project locates prominent and significant concepts of the global in contemporary culture, which …
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Disconsolate Subjects: Figures of Radical Alterity in the Twentieth Century Novel, From Modernism to Postcolonialism
… in English - Samuel Beckett, J.M. Coetzee, and Kazuo Ishiguro - whose fiction is populated by figures of disconsolation: characters who resist, evade, or - in the case of Ishiguro's protagonists - assiduously attempt to conform to the constitutive social formations and disciplinary technologies …