Including the first published essay on his latest novel, Klara and the Sun (2021), this is the first work of criticism to reappraise all of this leading transnational author's film, television, short fiction, and novel writing following his award of the Nobel Prize in 2017.
The book includes contributions from world-leading Ishiguro scholars as well as new voices, and includes chapters devoted to each of Ishiguro's major works, drawing out thematic and stylistic connections with his body of work, both literary and filmic. This timely study, following the critical and popular success of his most recent fiction and his recognition by the Nobel committee, is the only comprehensive study of an author at the forefront of world literature.
Edited by:
Kristian Shaw,
Peter Sloane
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 216mm,
Width: 138mm,
ISBN: 9781526182555
ISBN 10: 1526182556
Series: Twenty-First Century Perspectives
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 10 December 2024
Audience:
General/trade
,
ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming
Introduction: ‘This is the way it feels to me’: the writings of Kazuo Ishiguro – Kristian Shaw and Peter Sloane 1 Diaspora, trauma, spectrality and world literary writing in A Pale View of Hills – Emily Horton 2 Eloquence and empathy in A Pale View of Hills and An Artist of the Floating World – Cynthia F. Wong 3 Ishiguro's tempered presentational realism and practice – Rebecca Karni 4 ‘An inevitable course’: political responsibility in The Remains of the Day – Sara Upstone 5 Klara in the junkyard: on loneliness in The Unconsoled – Bruce Robbins 6 Novel dysfunction in When We Were Orphans – Andrew Bennett 7 Empathy and the ethics of posthuman reading in Never Let Me Go – Peter Sloane 8 Nocturnes, hope, and ‘that croony nostalgia music’ – Yugin Teo 9 Disinterring the English sublime: haunted atmospherics in The Buried Giant – Kristian Shaw 10 Klara and the humans: agency, Hannah Arendt and forgiveness – Robert Eaglestone 11 Kazuo Ishiguro’s film and TV scriptwriting – Anni Shen Afterword – Sebastian Groes Index -- .
Kristian Shaw is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Lincoln. Peter Sloane is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Lincoln.
Reviews for Kazuo Ishiguro
'Shaw and Sloan have compiled a rich and wide-ranging collection on 2017 Nobel Literature Laureate Kazuo Ishiguro... This edited work adds to and extends the criticism of Ishiguro’s work with novel and fresh perspectives, and will be of interest to those who read and study world and comparative literatures.' CHOICE Reprinted with permission from Choice Reviews. All rights reserved. Copyright by the American Library Association. -- .
