List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Gestures -- Part 1 Realism -- Part 2 Modernism -- 2. Imagination -- Part 1 Games -- Part 2 Childhood Arts -- 3. Aesthetics -- 4. Architext -- 5. Space Conclusion: The Remains of the ... -- References -- Index

Bibliographische Detailangaben

1. Verfasser:	Sloane, Peter (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	New York ; London ; Oxford ; New Delhi ; Sydney Bloomsbury Academic 2023
Ausgabe:	paperback edition
Schlagworte:	Ishiguro, Kazuo > 1954- Ishiguro, Kazuo / 1954- / Criticism and interpretation English literature / 20th century / History and criticism
Zusammenfassung:	List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Gestures -- Part 1 Realism -- Part 2 Modernism -- 2. Imagination -- Part 1 Games -- Part 2 Childhood Arts -- 3. Aesthetics -- 4. Architext -- 5. Space Conclusion: The Remains of the ... -- References -- Index "Kazuo Ishiguro's Gestural Poetics explores some of the more radical thematic and formal aspects of the writing of this most distinctive of novelists. Marked by great subtlety of expression, a clarity and precision of prose that is in tension with the often profound unreliability of the speaking subject, the surface of Ishiguro's novels belie the aggressively radical content. In readings of his exploration of empathy and the ethics of reading the posthuman, post-WWII politics and anti-Americanism, the deconstruction of the possibility of 'history', and the Kafka-esque psychogeographies of his fictional spaces, Peter Sloane places Ishiguro in the context of a late modernist aesthetic, one that is informed by the intervening rise and fall of the postmodern."--
Beschreibung:	181 Seiten
ISBN:	9781501377914