Revisiting loss : memory, trauma and nostalgia in the novels of Kazuo Ishiguro / Wojciech Drag.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Drąg, Wojciech, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grief.

Death in literature.

Bereavement.

Ishiguro, Kazuo, 1954---Criticism and interpretation.

Ishiguro, Kazuo.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (219 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Loss is the core experience which determines the identity of Kazuo Ishiguro's narrators and shapes their subsequent lives. Whether a traumatic ordeal, an act of social degradation, a failed relationship or a loss of home, the painful event serves as a sharp dividing line between the earlier, meaningful past and the period afterwards, which is infused with a sense of lack, dissatisfaction and nostalgia. Ishiguro's narrators have been unable to confine their loss to the past and remain preoccup...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART I; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CONCLUSIONS; PART II; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CONCLUSIONS; PART III; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CONCLUSIONS; TOWARDS LETTING GO?; WORKS CITED; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 13, 2014).

ISBN:

1-4438-6342-4

OCLC:

896186647