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Zusatztext ... the chapters in this book are a valuable contribution to the increasing body of work on Ishiguro. Informationen zum Autor Sean Matthews is Director of Studies in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Nottingham Malaysia. Sebastian Groes is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Roehampton University, UK. He is the series editor of Bloomsbury’s Contemporary Critical Perspectives Series, the editor of Ian McEwan (2013), and co-editor of Kazuo Ishiguro (2009) and Julian Barnes (2011), all published by Bloomsbury. Klappentext This is an up-to-date reader of critical essays on Kazuo Ishiguro by leading international academics. Vorwort This is an up-to-date reader of critical essays on Kazuo Ishiguro by leading international academics. Zusammenfassung Kazuo Ishiguro is one of the finest and most accomplished contemporary writers of his generation. The short story author, television writer and novelist, has produced a body of work which is just as critically-acclaimed as it is popular with the general public. This book presents critical essays on Kazuo Ishiguro. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword: On Having a Contemporary like Kazuo Ishiguro, Haruki Murakami Series Editors' Preface Acknowledgements Contributors Chronology of Kazuo Ishiguro's Life Introduction: ‘Your words open windows for me': The Art of Kazuo Ishiguro, Sebastian Groes (Roehampton University, UK) and Sean Matthews (University of Nottingham, UK) 1. ‘Somewhere just beneath the surface of things': Ishiguro's short fiction in context, Brian W. Shaffer (Rhodes College, Memphis, USA) 2. Strange Reads: Kazuo Ishiguro's A Pale View of Hills and An Artist of the Floating World in Japan , Motoyuki Shibata (Tokyo University, Japan) and Motoko Sugano (Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan) 3. ‘Like the gateway to another world': Kazuo Ishiguro's Screenwriting, Sebastian Groes (Roehampton University) and Paul-Daniel Veyret (Universite de Montaigne-Bordeaux, France) 4. History, Memory and the Construction of Gender in A Pale View of Hills , Justine Baillie (University of Greenwich, UK) and Sean Matthews (University of Nottingham, UK) 5. Artifice and Absorption: The Modesty of The Remains of the Day , David James (University of Nottingham, UK) 6. ‘To Give a Name, Is That Still to Give?': Footballers and Film Actors in The Unconsoled , Richard Robinson (University of Swansea, UK) 7. When We Were Orphans : Narration and Detection in the case of Christopher Banks, Helen Machinal (Université de Bretagne Occidentale, France) 8. Controlling Time: Never Let Me Go , Mark Currie (University of East Anglia, UK) Afterword: On First Reading Never Let Me Go , John Mullan (University College, London, UK) ‘I'm Sorry I can't Say More': An Interview with Kazuo Ishiguro, Sean Matthews (University of Nottingham) References Further Reading Index ...
