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Kazuo Ishiguro's Nonactors [PDF]

Novel, 2020
Abstract At center stage in Kazuo Ishiguro's work is the figure of the nonactor: a character type that confronts us time and again with scenarios in which action is devalued. This essay shows that, despite finding themselves in situations that mandate action, Ishiguro's characters opt instead for risk-averse and mechanical-like behaviors
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Social Change and Social Standing in the Novels Things Fall Apart from Chinua Achebe and The Remains of the Day from Kazuo Ishiguro – Part I.

Journal on European History of Law, 2020
The following text deals with the topic social change and social standing in the novels Things Fall Apart from Chinua Achebe and The Remains of the Day from Kazuo Ishiguro. Both authors describe the change in parts of the Nigerian rather English society
Kerstin Rupp
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Il Simulacro e la Copia. L'immaginario contemporaneo della vita artificiale

Between, 2022
A partire dall'opposizione postulata da Deleuze tra la copia-icona e il simulacro, l'intervento esamina alcune opere contemporanee che ci presentano delle figure ibride di esseri artificiali, intesi come copie o "continuazioni" di esseri umani: l ...
Simona Micali
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Representation of Duty as an Object of Manipulation in The Bone Clocks and The Buried Giant

Critical Literary Studies, 2023
Deontological ethics emphasizes the connection between duty and the morality of human conduct; nevertheless, Mitchell and Ishiguro touch on a different form of duty, which disagrees with the deontological theory and demonstrates that it is in one’s ...
Hamideh Vesalifallah, Roya Yaghoubi
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Un pallido orizzonte di confine: i romanzi ‘giapponesi’ di Kazuo Ishiguro

Between, 2011
Nonostante Kazuo Ishiguro sia considerato uno dei maggiori romanzieri della letteratura contemporanea scritta in inglese, è nato in Giappone, e si è trasferito in Gran Bretagna da bambino. Durante i primi anni della sua carriera ha ambientato alcuni suoi
Annalisa Bardelli
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Individual Versus Collective Memory in Kazuo Ishiguro’s “The Buried Giant” [PDF]

Filolog, 2016
Referring to the postulates of several theoreticians in the field of memory studies, predominantly those of Maurice Halbwachs and Aleida Assmann, this paper explores the distinction between individual and collective memory, with the aim of shedding light
Zlata Lukić
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Imaginary Homelands Reimagined in the Novels of Kazuo Ishiguro

Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies, 1994
Taking as a point of departure Salman Rushdie’s essay “Imaginary Homelands,” this paper will analyze the three novels of Japanese-born English writer Kazuo Ishiguro in order to demonstrate how the peculiarities of memory and a cross-cultural imagination
Rocío G. Davis
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FROM THE JAPANESE-ORIENTED NOVELS TO THE MULTICULTURAL ONES (Kazuo Ishiguro’s works)

Записки з романо-германської філології, 2019
The article deals with Kazuo Ishiguro’s philosophical and aesthetic principles reflected in the analysed works. Particular attention is paid to the ideological and artistic dominants of the individual style.
В. В. Ланова
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Kazuo Ishiguro

, 2023
Kazuo Ishiguro er en britisk forfatter. Han blev født i Japan, men flyttede i 1960 til Storbritannien med sine forældre og voksede op her. I 1995 blev han i England adlet for sin indsats for litteraturen, og han er efterfølgende blevet hædret i adskillige lande, kulminerende med Nobelprisen i litteratur 2017.
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Never let me go: science fiction and legal reality

Literator, 2011
This article offers a law and literary perspective on Kazuo Ishiguro‟s novel „never let me go‟. The article engages with the existentialist themes of the novel and examines various medicolegal issues pertaining to cloning and organ transplants.
J.H. de Villiers, M. Slabbert
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