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Zusatztext Across a book whose own critical disposition consciously models the very gestural strategies to which it attends, Peter Sloane limns the thresholds of fraught expression and partially disclosed implication that readers have long found so beguiling in Ishiguro’s fiction. By patiently accompanying and explicating evanescent forms of signification, he tracks moments of protean insight and unsettling inarticulacy that are easily passed over. An expert portrait of a ‘delicately experimental’ novelist emerges that helps us to understand how Ishiguro turns the task of confronting ineffable dimensions of experience into a virtue. Informationen zum Autor Peter Sloane is a Lecturer in Contemporary Anglophone Literature at the University of Lincoln, UK. He is the author of David Foster Wallace and the Body (2019), and is currently working on his next book project, a study of Altruism and the Arts 1900-Present. Vorwort Offers new insight into the muted but powerful radical aspects of Kazuo Ishiguro’s writing, while also placing these in a global literary tradition. Zusammenfassung Through readings of Ishiguro’s repurposing of key elements of realism and modernism; his interest in childhood imagination and sketching; interrogation of aesthetics and ethics; his fascination with architecture and the absent home; and his expressionist use of ‘imaginary’ space and place, Kazuo Ishiguro's Gestural Poetics examines the manner in which Ishiguro's fictions approach, but never quite reveal, the ineffable, inexpressible essence of his narrators’ emotionally fraught worlds. Reformulating Martin Heidegger’s suggestion that the ‘essence of world can only be indicated’ as ‘the essence of world can only be gestured towards, ’ Sloane argues that while Ishiguro’s novels and short stories are profoundly sensitive to the limitations of literary form, their narrators are, to varying degrees, equally keenly attuned to the failures of language itself. In order to communicate something of the emotional worlds of characters adrift in various uncertainties, while also commenting on the expressive possibilities of fiction and the mimetic arts more widely, Ishiguro appropriates a range of metaphors which enable both author and character to gesture towards the undisclosable essences of fiction and being. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Abbreviations Acknowledgments Introduction1. Gestures Part 1 Realism Part 2 Modernism2. Imagination Part 1 Games Part 2 Childhood Arts3. Aesthetics4. Architext5. SpaceConclusion: The Remains of the … References Index ...
