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" Kazuo Ishiguro : "
edited by Sean Matthews and Sebastian Groes.
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BL
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850434
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Kazuo Ishiguro : : contemporary critical perspectives /\ edited by Sean Matthews and Sebastian Groes.
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London :: Continuum,, ©2009.
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| Series Statement
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Contemporary critical perspectives
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1 online resource (xvi, 151 pages)
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0826438792
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: 1282870661
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: 9780826438799
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: 9781282870666
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: 9786612870668
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0826497233
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0826497241
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9780826497239
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9780826497246
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Contents; Foreword: On Having a Contemporary Like Kazuo Ishiguro; Series Editors' Preface; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Chronology of Kazuo Ishiguro's Life; INTRODUCTION: 'Your Words Open Windows for Me': The Art of Kazuo Ishiguro; CHAPTER ONE: 'Somewhere Just Beneath the Surface of Things': Kazuo Ishiguro's Short Fiction; CHAPTER TWO: Strange Reads: Kazuo Ishiguro's A Pale View of Hills and An Artist of the Floating World in Japan; CHAPTER THREE: 'Like the Gateway to Another World': Kazuo Ishiguro's Screenwriting.
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CHAPTER FOUR: History, Memory, and the Construction of Gender in Kazuo Ishiguro's A Pale View of HillsCHAPTER FIVE: Artifice and Absorption: The Modesty of Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day; CHAPTER SIX: 'To Give a Name, Is That Still to Give?': Footballers and Film Actors in Kazuo Ishiguro's The Unconsoled; CHAPTER SEVEN: Kazuo Ishiguro's When We Were Orphans: Narration and Detection in the Case of Christopher Banks; CHAPTER EIGHT: Controlling Time: Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go; AFTERWORD: On First Reading Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go.
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'I'm Sorry I Can't Say More': An Interview with Kazuo IshiguroReferences; Further Reading; Index.
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Kazuo Ishiguro is one of the finest and most accomplished contemporary writers of his generation. The short story author, television writer and novelist, included twice in Granta's list of Best Young British Writers, has over the past twenty-five years produced a body of work which is just as critically-acclaimed as it is popular with the general public. Like the writings of Ian McEwan, Kazuo Ishiguro's work is concerned with creating discursive platforms for issues of class, ethics, ethnicity, nationhood, place, gender and the uses and problems surrounding artistic representation.€ As a.
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Ishiguro, Kazuo,1954-Criticism and interpretation.
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Ishiguro, Kazuo,1954-
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English literature-- 20th century-- History and criticism.
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English literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- European-- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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| Dewey Classification
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823.914
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PR6059.S5Z73 2009eb
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Groes, Sebastian.
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Matthews, Sean.
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