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The narrators and narratees of kazuo ishiguro.
Katherine E. Harrell , University of Denver Follow
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Absolution, Confession, Narratee, Narrator
My thesis examines the narratees of three novels by Kazuo Ishiguro: An Artist of the Floating World , The Remains of the Day , and Never Let Me Go . In each novel, a first person narrator directs his or her story toward an unidentified narratee. Through their narration, the narrators reveal who they imagine their narratees to be and why they are telling their stories to these particular types of people. In relating their narratives, Ono, Stevens, and Kathy H., the respective narrators, each reveal a secret they have sought to hide from the other characters in the novel, a past action of which they are ashamed and for which they desire to confess and offer justification in the hopes of receiving absolution. Ono reveals to his narratee that he used his art to further the Imperialist movement in pre-World War II Japan and caused the arrest of one of his anti-Imperialist students. Stevens, a British butler narrating from 1956, admits to loyally serving an aristocrat who was both a Nazi sympathizer and an anti-Semite. As part of a cloning program in an alternative 1990s England, Kathy H. calmly submits to and assists a system that will eventually harvest her vital organs for use by others. Unable to find anyone to sympathize with them, understand their reasons for acting as they did, or forgive them for their mistakes, the three narrators turn to narratees they imagine to be much like themselves. Through their relationships with their narratees, these narrators grapple with guilt, responsibility, self-deception, and autonomy in their various contexts.
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Identity, identification and narcissistic phantasy in the novels of Kazuo Ishiguro
Webster Thomas, Diane A (2013) Identity, identification and narcissistic phantasy in the novels of Kazuo Ishiguro. PhD thesis, Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust / University of East London. Full text available [display full text icon] [full text coming soon] [not allowed] [no full text available] -->
This thesis explores Ishiguro’s novels in the light of his preoccupation with emotional upheaval:the psychological devastations of trauma, persisting in memory from childhood into middle and old age. He demonstrates how the first person narrators maintain human dignity and self- esteem unknowingly,through specific, psychic defence mechanisms and the related behaviours,typical of narcissism. Ishiguro’s vision has affinities with the post-Kleinian Object-Relations psychoanalyticliterature on borderline states of mind and narcissism. I propose a hybrid,critical framework which takes account of this, along with the key aspects of the traditional humanist novel, held in tension with certain deconstructive tactics from postmodernist writing. Post-Kleinian theory and practice sit within the humanist approach in any case, with both the ethical and the reality-seeking imperatives, paramount. Ishiguro presents humanism in the ‘deficit’ model and this framework helps to bring it into view. The argument is supported by close readings of the six novels in which the trauma concerns different forms of fragmentation from wars, socio-historic upheaval, geographical dislocation, and emotional disconnection. All involve psychic fragmentation of the egoin the central character,through splitting and projection. Ishiguro,himself, perceives some sorts of object-relations, psychic mechanisms,operating at the unconscious level,which he calls ‘appropriation’ and which the post- Kleinians have theorised. They have found a range of variants of projectiveidentification into the ‘other’ with there-introjection of a distorted self,suffused with narcissistic phantasy. While these defences are protective, Ishiguro seems aware that excessive projection comes at a cost: depletion of affect, weak identity, limited symbol formation,thinking and self-knowledge, and a diminished capacity to give meaning to relationships. These factors are all borne out in his narrators’ omnipotent behaviours–in re-enaction. Ishiguro’s narrative methods produce figurative representations of the narrators’ internal worlds through his external worlds of settings, while other conventions of the novel,such as plot, character, genre and so on,are reconfigured in their deficit versions.
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Globalisation and dislocation in the novels of Kazuo Ishiguro
Sim, Wai-chew (2002) Globalisation and dislocation in the novels of Kazuo Ishiguro. PhD thesis, University of Warwick.
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Celebratory claims for the epistemic centrality of the diasporic, nomadic and non-territorial subject have been advanced in recent years. Migrancy is said to confer privileged sensibility and ocular omnipotence; it has also been proposed as a universal ontological condition. At the same time there has been immense critical investiture in the counter-hegemonic valencies of diasporic and syncretic or hybrid cultural forms, which are often parsed as inherently oppositional or subversive, all of which helps to buttress theoretical moves that downplay or dismiss paradigms of rootedness, territoriality and/or national identity in contemporary critical discourse.
This dissertation challenges the articulations above through a critical elaboration of the writings of Anglo-Japanese author Kazuo Ishiguro. It does this by drawing attention to the operation of exilic self-fashioning in Ishiguro's fiction. But, more importantly, it shows that his writing inscribes a trajectory that is metacritical in its ambit, suggesting that critical elucidation of cosmopolitan cultural production needs to attend to the systematicity and effects of international capital if its oppositional impetus is not to be emasculated. This claim derives from the propensity in Ishiguro's fiction to refine the substance of earlier work in response to their popular reception, while simultaneously restating contestatory themes, which means that his authorial trajectory is also able to illuminate some of the commonplace misrecognitions underwriting the reception of cosmopolitan cultural production. Insofar as the increasingly normative insistence on the oppositional makeup of diasporic and syncretic cultural forms and experiences tends to misjudge the appropriate proclivities of global capital the predominance of the former in critical discourse is, therefore, deeply problematised, together with the allied propensity to devalue materialist interpretative categories. The importance of exilic themes in Ishiguro's fiction and also the trajectory proposed here reminds us, however, that migrant encounters can take many forms, and hence that scrupulous attention must be paid to the negotiated specificities of different migrant encounters.
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| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Ishiguro, Kazuo, 1954- -- Criticism and interpretation, Globalization in literature, Emigration and immigration in literature, Multiculturalism in literature |
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A matter of time? Temporality, agency and the cosmopolitan in the novels of Kazuo Ishiguro and Timothy Mo
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Psychological disorder and narrative order in Kazuo Ishiguro's novels
Duangfai, Chanapa (2018). Psychological disorder and narrative order in Kazuo Ishiguro's novels. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.
This thesis explores Kazuo Ishiguro's six novels written in first-person narrative mode: A Pale View of Hills, An Artist of the Floating World, The Remains of the Day, The Unconso/ed, When We Were Orphans, and Never Let Me Go. The focus is on how Ishiguro's narrative techniques allow him to explore the themes of psychological disorder with which his work consistently engages, which will be identified here through use of ideas drawn from Sigmund Freud and from literary studies of trauma fiction. The argument will be divided into six chapters. In each chapter, one of Ishiguro' s novels will be studied thoroughly. Distorted narrative and the technique of transference of Etsuko in A Pale View of Hills are explored in chapter I. In chapter II, the research concerns particularly how Masuji Ono, the narrator of An Artist of the Floating World, who suffers from his demand to be respected and his indecisiveness in defining the sense of respect especially as a great artist. Chapter III deals with narrative of Stevens, an English butler, in The Remains of the Day, whose problem concerning his professional achievement in its relation to the idea of id, ego and superego. Chapter IV argues that The Unconsoled engages with how the dream-like narrative technique is developed in order to reveal Ryder's psychological problem, and how Ryder uses the dream-work mechanisms, especially displacement, to deal with his problem. Chapter V explores how When We Were Orphans works as detective fiction and how this relates to Christopher Banks' psychological problem, and, finally, in chapter VI, I examine the particular psychological problem articulated by the clone narrator of Never Let Me Go.
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To the ends of the earth: Post-Anthropocene cosmopolitanism in the novels of Kazuo Ishiguro, Margaret Atwood, and David MitchellAng, Yit Ho Joshua (2022) To the ends of the earth: Post-Anthropocene cosmopolitanism in the novels of Kazuo Ishiguro, Margaret Atwood, and David Mitchell. PhD thesis, University of Essex. Copy to clipboard Copy Ang, Yit Ho Joshua (2022) To the ends of the earth: Post-Anthropocene cosmopolitanism in the novels of Kazuo Ishiguro, Margaret Atwood, and David Mitchell. PhD thesis, University of Essex. This thesis examines the ethics and politics of cosmopolitanism beyond the Anthropocene by interrogating the presentation of the human in relation to other-than-humans in the novels of Kazuo Ishiguro, Margaret Atwood, and David Mitchell. The mounting global uncertainty and environmental crises have heightened fears that humanity may not survive beyond the third millennium, but these apocalyptic predictions reveal an anthropocentric concern with the planet’s ability to sustain human life in capitalist societies rather than the wellbeing of the planet. I argue that ensuring the survival of humanity and the planet demands a new vision of cosmopolitanism that recognises the planetary interconnectedness and interdependence of all present and future beings who share the biosphere. This proposition calls for a redefinition of the human and an expansion of the communities that humans belong to and coheres with the aim of eco-cosmopolitanism to connect the human, nonhuman, and the ecological. Using the lenses of posthumanism, ecocriticism, and cosmopolitanism, I examine how, despite their speculative content, the three authors’ novels convincingly portray the experience of ‘dislocation’ brought about by globalisation and provoke fundamental questions about what constitutes the human and how this human subject might relate to nonhuman and posthuman others ethically and equitably. Through the interrogation of these issues, this thesis also shows how these works transcend the confines of fiction to inspire and challenge our current practices of cosmopolitanism. Item Metadata
Share and exportAvailable files, --> --> unspecified -->. Filename: Yit Ho Joshua Ang PhD Thesis (FINAL).pdf View detailed statistics  Home > ETDS > DISSERTATIONS > 3181 Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)“class and consciousness”: an application of marxist theory and posthumanism to kazuo ishiguro’s the remains of the day, never let me go and klara and the sun. Renee Elizabeth Samuel Follow Date of AwardSpring 5-18-2024 Degree TypeDegree name. Russell Sbriglia, PhD Muhammad Farooq, PhD Marxism, Althusser, ideological state apparatuses, critical posthumanism, transhumanism, Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day, Never Let Me Go, Klara and the Sun Kazuo Ishiguro’s works are introspective explorations of how one’s prescribed role in society shapes one’s identity; this self-reflection is evident in three of his novels, The Remains of the Day, Never Let Me Go, and Klara and the Sun . All three novels heavily rely on the point of view of a member of the subservient class, and this perspective provides insight into the unnamed hierarchies within society and the relationship, or lack thereof, between divided classes. Despite their similarities in structure, each novel explores class relationships in different ways. The Remains of the Day focuses on an individual living a life of devout servitude to a man undeserving of such unwavering dedication, while Never Let Me Go explores the ethics of upper-class individuals living comfortably yet knowingly at the expense of others. Klara and the Sun explores the relationship between humans and machines and posits an interesting division between human beings themselves, separating humans who are genetically enhanced from those who are not. For my thesis, I propose to bring Marxist and posthumanist theory into conversation with each novel as a means of further exploring Ishiguro’s careful critique of societal values and class stratification. With regard to the former, the legitimacy of authority and the relationship between an individuals’ job and identity are key aspects to each novel and correlate with Marxist views on ideological illusion and alienation. Furthermore, regarding the latter, most of these novels involve an element of technological advancement that contributes to class separation, and this technological dimension places these novels in dialogue with critical posthumanism and transhumanism. This dual Marxist and critical posthumanist approach to these three works can help us better understand Ishiguro’s commentary on modern society. Recommended CitationSamuel, Renee Elizabeth, "“Class and Consciousness”: An Application of Marxist Theory and Posthumanism to Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day, Never Let Me Go and Klara and the Sun" (2024). Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs) . 3181. https://scholarship.shu.edu/dissertations/3181 Since May 16, 2024 Included inOther English Language and Literature Commons Advanced Search
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 Reconstructing the Past as a Means of Rationalizing the Present: A Study of Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of The Day (1989 2017, International Journal of Applied Linguistics & English Literature ISSN 2200-3592 (Print), ISSN 2200-3452 (Online) Vol. 6 No. 4 The postwar world period was riddled with rapid changes at the different levels. Many people felt they were not able to come to terms with such ongoing changes and had to find a way to coexist with the status-quo. Postmodernism looks upon man as a social being that should learn how to adapt himself to whatever situation by whatever means available. Ishiguro’s novels are written in an expanded humanistic tradition. They are stories dealing with human relationship. They are narratives centering on the working of consciousness and the unconsciousness of the human mind. Ishiguro is concerned with reworking of the past from a late twentieth century perspective. The purpose of this study is to trace the postmodern aspects in The Remains of The Day through the life and character of Stevens and his relationships with the people that he has lived with. Stevens struggles to come to term with his present through telling stories and anecdotes of his past life. The novel depicts the role that memories can play in reconstructing the past events so that the present can be meaningful in some way from a postmodern standpoint. As a postwar British individual, the protagonist of the novel tries to practice suppression over his emotions at the personal level as well as the professional level to construct a new identity. Stevens appears torn between memories of the past and the representation of the present. He is suffering from an identity crisis and is striving to create a meaningful present for himself. As a postmodern man, Stevens has to struggle at different levels. He is leading a life riddled with inconsistencies and contradictions. He can’t feel at home with the surrounding world as he is always busy trying to achieve some perfection that is not attainable in a world riddled with conflicts and struggles. Related PapersCairo Studies in English abdulgawad elnady Kazuo Ishiguro's contribution to the form and content of the English novel The Remains of the Day is twofold. He has reinvigorated the way characters have traditionally been depicted by foregrounding the predicament of the butler at the expense of time-honored heroes like lords and nobles; he has also appropriated the full potentialities of memory in order to consummate his first-person narrative. By thus expanding the possibilities of the novel as an art form, Ishiguro can justly be said to have confounded the horizon of expectation that readers bring to his fiction, and thus he also helps us to see the world in all its multihued complexity.  Éva Szederkényi PhD Ostrava Journal of English Philology Silvia Chiarle Darlington Hall epitomises a political arena that corresponds to what John Ruskin describes as the male public sphere. The main actors in this sphere are Lord Darlington and Stevens, who both regard their activities as a form of service to humanity. Nevertheless, if we analyse Stevens's behaviour not only in the light of Freud's theories about idealisation and love as explained in Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego and On Narcissism: An Introduction, but also through the cultural and custom sources that deal with the condition of menservants and wives in the Victorian age, it would appear that Stevens's social sex role conforms more to Ruskin's concept of the feminine. Stevens and Darlington would form a virtual couple, where the former has the role of the wife and the latter that of the husband. The following dissertation focuses on An Artist of the Floating World, The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. I discuss the themes of memory, unreliability and ethics in relation to the three texts. The introduction to this dissertation provides an outline of how these key themes are significant to the reader's understanding of the novels and offers an insight into reader-response theory, to which my understanding of the texts is indebted. The main body of the dissertation is separated into three distinct chapters, one on each of the three novels. Each subsequent chapter builds upon the ideas explored in the previous one, allowing me to provide links across Ishiguro's texts as the dissertation progresses. The main arguments I present are that each of Ishiguro's narrators are unreliable due to the suppression of painful memories relating to their past. The ethical dimension is relevant to the contextual circumstances surrounding each text. Both An Artist of the Floating World and The Remains of the Day are stories that involve the narrator reflecting on his role in World War Two, whereas Never Let Me Go explores the ethical implications of cloning and genetic engineering. Despite these controversial issues serving as the backdrop to Ishiguro's fiction, I argue here that the focus on the individual is a more pressing concern: how individuals implement a variety of coping strategies to combat traumatic experiences. Ishiguro's narrators are emotionally repressed and attempt to reconstruct their personal histories when telling their life stories; by engaging with myriad critical interpretations, I explore the difference between how the narrators view and interpret a variety of instances and how the reader receives such information. Foreign Language and Literature Research (Central China Normal University) Paul Patton This article reads Ishiguro’s novel, The Remains of the Day in the light of Nietzsche's discussions of ‘the problem of the actor’ and the ways in which modern subjects relate to their social roles as actors in The Gay Science. The central character, Mr Stevens, holds strong views about what it means to be not merely a good but a great butler. His life is lived in role of butler and in the service of this ideal of greatness. He pays a high emotional and moral price for his commitment to this ideal, and at the end of the novel questions the value of the life he has lived, while also showing himself incapable of living otherwise. In this manner, the novel may be read as addressing the question of the relationship between personhood and the roles that we assume. To the extent that we are conscious of ourselves as performing a role, it raises profound questions about that nature of individual identity, agency and responsibility in the modern world. Wendy Nakanishi This paper proposes to compare and contrast two novels that take as their theme the reflections and regrets of a lonely male protagonist. In the case of Bruno’s Dream (1969), the main character is Bruno, a sick old man nearing death. In The Remains of the Day (1990), it is the butler Stevens who, preoccupied with his work, has always kept to himself and now discovers a longing to establish human contact with others. Bruno and Stevens are depicted as essentially alone. In the drama of life they are spectators rather than actors. They are ‘insider outsiders.’ Bruno inhabits a large household in London and Stevens heads the staff of an English country house, but both hold themselves aloof or apart from those around them. That the sense of alienation Bruno and Stevens experience is so acutely described may be attributed in part to the fact that they are the creation of authors who have acknowledged feelings of being ‘insider outsiders’ themselves: inhabiting England but not native to it... Katarina Polonsky An exploration into self-reflexivity and linguistic virtuosity in Ishiguro and Winterson's work. Dr Kasturi Sinha Ray Kazuo Ishiguro (1954-) is one of the most influencing writers of post-world war era. His third novel The Remains of the Day (1989) is one of the best of his fictions written using his signature mnemo-technic. The novel went on to bag the Booker the following year. The narrator- protagonist Stevens is a butler by profession. With all his faults and blemishes he represents a unique human instinct- if not normal- of preferring to be rather to become, in a Nietzschean sense. Stevens has numerous flaws which holds on to the interest of the readers. He is addicted to believing and remaining the same- an image of his father. His memories and his style of recollection gives him away to the readers as one of the most intriguing of the unreliable narrators ever created. The character of Stevens is more of a warning than a study. The author warns us of the extremities or absolutisms. Indeed too much of anything- even an idea- is simply wrong. International Journal of Applied Linguistics & English Literature [IJALEL] Marc A. Ouellette As it plays out in Ishiguro's novel, The Remains of the Day, the social requirement for servants to carry out their duties unseen by anyone imprints upon the identity formation of the workers. This process operates through the denial of the basic "mirror stage" recognition of self. What's interesting, though is that the invisibility is enforced through the kind of self surveillance that results from a panoptic gaze. Thus, the novel presents an opportunity to theorize about the intersections of Lacan's conceptualization of the gaze and Foucault's conception of its effects. Loading Preview Sorry, preview is currently unavailable. You can download the paper by clicking the button above. 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Literary Theory and CriticismPh.d thesis of kazuo ishiguro’s novels.  Analysis of Kazuo Ishiguro’s NovelsBy NASRULLAH MAMBROL on April 7, 2019 • ( 0 ) A common link among Kazuo Ishiguro’s (born 8 November 1954) novels is the prominence of the first-person narrator, through whose meandering thoughts the story unfolds. Readers soon discover, however, that these central voices are rather unreliable in their accounts of… Read More › You must be logged in to post a comment.
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PhD Thesis: Abstract: This thesis explores Ishiguro's novels in the light of his preoccupation with emotional upheaval: the psychological devastations of trauma, persisting in memory from childhood into middle and old age. He demonstrates how the first person narrators maintain human dignity and self-esteem unknowingly, through specific, psychic
This thesis explores Kazuo Ishiguro's six novels written in first-person narrative mode: A Pale View of Hills, An Artist of the Floating World, The Remains of the Day, ... Undertaking this PhD has been a truly life-changing experience for me and it cannot be completed without help and support from my supervisor. Therefore, I would like to use ...
Key words: Kazuo Ishiguro; trauma; identity; traumatic memory; traumatic narrative . 7 1. Introduction This dissertation examines Kazuo Ishiguro's novels A Pale View of Hills and An Artist of the Floating World focusing more particularly on the common theme of these works, trauma. Both works are narrated in the first person and unfold in the ...
The Nobel Prize committee's 2017 award to Ishiguro was to a writer "who . . . has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world" (Svenska Akademien). This thesis considers Ishiguro's work as supremely connected with the world of inner consciousness, and as illustrating our commonality in creating meaning across ...
Identity, Identification and Narcissistic Phantasy in the Novels of Kazuo Ishiguro This thesis explores Ishiguro's novels in the light of his preoccupation with emotional upheaval: the psychological devastations of trauma, persisting in memory from childhood into middle and old age. He demonstrates how the first person narrators
Abstract. My thesis examines the narratees of three novels by Kazuo Ishiguro: An Artist of the Floating World, The Remains of the Day, and Never Let Me Go. In each novel, a first person narrator directs his or her story toward an unidentified narratee. Through their narration, the narrators reveal who they imagine their narratees to be and why ...
Webster Thomas, Diane A (2013) Identity, identification and narcissistic phantasy in the novels of Kazuo Ishiguro. PhD thesis, Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust / University of East London. Full text available. Preview. PDF (Webster Thomas - Ishiguro) Webster_Thomas_-_Ishiguro_2012.pdf - Published Version ...
Keywords: Memory, Identity, Trauma, Kazuo Ishiguro. Introduction Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day is a 1989 novel. The work received the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 1989. The novel was adapted into a film, directed by James Ivory, and the screenplay was written by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and Harold Pinter. It was nominated
This dissertation aims to interrogate the genre conventions and stereotypes as employed by British novelist, Kazuo Ishiguro, particularly in the post-war novel of manners, The Remains of the Day, the dystopian sci-fi narrative, Never Let Me Go, and finally, the medieval fantasy romance, The Buried Giant as literary devices. Arguing that instead ...
Psychological disorder and narrative order in Kazuo Ishiguro's novels. Chanapa Duangfai. Published 1 December 2018. Psychology. This thesis explores Kazuo Ishiguro's six novels written in first-person narrative mode: A Pale View of Hills, An Artist of the Floating World, The Remains of the Day, The Unconso/ed, When We Were Orphans, and Never ...
This thesis explores Kazuo Ishiguro's 2005 novel Never Let Me Go, with a focus on the way the novel considers large questions concerning the "meaning" of human life and the nature of "human condition" as Ishiguro calls it in interviews discussing his novel, using language and terminology provided by phenomenologist and philosopher Martin Heidegger in his seminal work Being and Time ...
Tuohy, Angel Katrina, "Making Meaning : Death, Dignity, and Dasein in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go" (2020). Theses, Dissertations and Culminating Projects. 332. https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/etd/332 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by Montclair State University Digital Commons. It has been
Thesis (PhD) Subjects: P Language and Literature > PR English literature: Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Ishiguro, Kazuo, 1954- -- Criticism and interpretation, Globalization in literature, Emigration and immigration in literature, Multiculturalism in literature: Official Date: February 2002
The emergence of novelists such as Kazuo Ishiguro and Timothy Mo in the final decades of the twentieth century has often been taken as evidence of an increasing multiculturalism both in Britain and the wider world, as well as in British literature itself. ... Spark_PhD Thesis_2011. File: application/pdf, 1.34 MB. Type: Thesis.
Abstract. This thesis explores Kazuo Ishiguro's six novels written in first-person narrative mode: A Pale View of Hills, An Artist of the Floating World, The Remains of the Day, The Unconso/ed, When We Were Orphans, and Never Let Me Go. The focus is on how Ishiguro's narrative techniques allow him to explore the themes of psychological disorder ...
This thesis examines the ethics and politics of cosmopolitanism beyond the Anthropocene by interrogating the presentation of the human in relation to other-than-humans in the novels of Kazuo Ishiguro, Margaret Atwood, and David Mitchell. The mounting global uncertainty and environmental crises have heightened fears that humanity may not survive beyond the third millennium, but these ...
Abstract. Kazuo Ishiguro's works are introspective explorations of how one's prescribed role in society shapes one's identity; this self-reflection is evident in three of his novels, The Remains of the Day, Never Let Me Go, and Klara and the Sun.All three novels heavily rely on the point of view of a member of the subservient class, and this perspective provides insight into the unnamed ...
A PhD Thesis, Budapest. Teruko, Takanash. 2012. A Metaphorical World Described by an Unreliable Narrator: Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of The Day. Nihan University, Graduates School of Social Cultural Studies. Thomas, Diane. 2012. Identity, Identification and Narcissistic Phantasy in The Novels of Kazuo Ishiguro. A PhD thesis, University of ...
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The Portrayal of Women Characters in Ishiguro's Select Novels Ms. Gamaya K P PhD Scholar, Dept. of English PSG College of Arts and Science Dr. M.S. Saritha Assistant Professor, Dept. of English, PSG College of Arts and Science. Abstract The winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature, Kazuo Ishiguro is a British novelist, screen-writer
A common link among Kazuo Ishiguro's (born 8 November 1954) novels is the prominence of the first-person narrator, through whose meandering thoughts the story unfolds. Readers soon discover, however, that these central voices are rather unreliable in their accounts of…. Read More ›. Posts about Ph.D Thesis of Kazuo Ishiguro's Novels ...
This thesis is intended to explore Kazuo Ishiguro's oeuvre, including A PaleView of Hills, An Artist of the Floating World, The Remains of the Day, TheUnconsoled, When We Were Orphans, and Never Let Me Go from the perspective oftrauma theory. Employing first-person narration, these novels deal with thememories of their protagonists respectively. However, there is a disinclination onthe part ...
An MA Thesis. University of Agder. Johansson, Kenny. 2011. "The Self-contradictory Narrative of Mr. Stevens in Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of The Day. ENIO2 Literary Essay. University of Gothenburg. Lalrinfeli, C. 2012. A Study of Memory and Identity in Selected Works by Kazuo Ishiguro. A PhD Dissertation. PhD Scholar, Mizoram University. Azawl.