Chris Holmes

Kazuo Ishiguro Against World Literature

Herausgeber: Beebee, Thomas Oliver

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"How has a writer known principally for his contained domestic novels come to represent the most dynamic elements of world literature? This book expands our understanding of how world literature engages with pressing crises of the 20th and 21st centuries by examining the ways in which Ishiguro foregrounds those who fail to comprehend their place in the flow of politics, culture, and ideas. Holmes positions Ishiguro as the great chronicler of everyday lives, and as such, prepares a mode of reading world literature that questions the assumptions for how we live with others when each of us is deeply limited"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. November 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781501388422
• ISBN-10: 1501388428
• Artikelnr.: 70957661

Autorenporträt

Chris Holmes is Associate Professor and Chair of Literatures in English at Ithaca College, USA. His work has been published in NOVEL, Contemporary Literature, MFS, Literature Compass, Diaspora, The Oxford University ORE for Literature, and he is co-editor (with Kelly Mee Rich) of the special issue: "Kazuo Ishiguro After the Nobel" in MFS. He is the founder and host of the literary podcast, Burned by Books.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Chronology of Kazuo Ishiguro's
Novels and Abbreviations Used 1. Introduction: Kazuo Ishiguro at the Limit
2. Object Thinking 3. Clone Thinking 4. Two-Minds Thinking 5. Epilogue: On
the Gift of Limits in Collaborative World Making Notes Works Cited Index