Understanding Kazuo Ishiguro

Informationen zum Autor Brian W. Shaffer is a professor of English and dean of Academic Affairs for Faculty Development at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee, and the author of The Blinding Torch: Modern British Fiction and the Discourse of Civilization and Reading the Novel in English 1950-2000 . Klappentext All of Ishiguro's novels are shown to capture first-person narrators in the intriguing act of revealing--yet of attempting to conceal beneath the surface of their mundane present activities--the alarming significance and troubling consequences of their past lives. Zusammenfassung A guide to the life and work of the author of ""The Remains of the Day"". It reveals Ishiguro's novels to be intricately crafted! psychologically absorbing! hauntingly evocative works that betray the author's grounding not only in the literature of Japan but also in the 20th-century British and Irish masters - Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Brian W Shaffer, Brian W. Shaffer
• Verlag: Univ of south carolina press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 15.07.2008
• EAN: 9781570037948
• ISBN: 978-1-57003-794-8
• Seiten: 146
• Abmessung: 127 mm x 203 mm x 13 mm
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft