The Cambridge Companion to Kazuo Ishiguro
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The Cambridge Companion to Kazuo Ishiguro by Andrew Bennett
The Cambridge Companion to Kazuo Ishiguro offers an accessible introduction to key aspects of the novelist's remarkable body of work. The volume addresses Ishiguro's engagement with fundamental questions of humanity and personal responsibility, with aesthetic value and political valency, with the vicissitudes of memory and historical documentation, and with questions of family, home, and homelessness. Focused through the personal experiences of some of the most memorable characters in contemporary fiction, Ishiguro's writing speaks to the major communitarian questions of our time – questions of nationalism and colonialism, race and ethnicity, migration, war, and cultural memory and social justice. The chapters attend to Ishiguro's highly readable novels while also ranging across his other creative output. Gathering together established and emerging scholars from the UK, Europe, the USA, and East Asia, the volume offers a survey of key works and themes while also moving critical discussion forward in new and challenging ways.
Andrew Bennett is Professor of English at the University of Bristol. He is co-author, with Nicholas Royle, of the best-selling textbooks Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory (6th edn., 2022), and This Thing Called Literature: Reading, Thinking, Writing (2nd edn., 2023).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781108822022 |
| ISBN 10 | 1108822029 |
| Title | The Cambridge Companion to Kazuo Ishiguro |
| Author | Andrew Bennett |
| Series | Cambridge Companions To Literature |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2023-03-23 |
| Number of pages | 293 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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