Laura Colombino

Kazuo Ishiguro and Ethics (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Kazuo Ishiguro and Ethics addresses the philosophical issues in Ishiguro's fiction, shedding light on the moral condition of his characters: their agency, responsibility and commitment to the good. It investigates his engagement with Platonic and modern philosophy, and his use of cross-cultural myths and allegories.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040263143
• Artikelnr.: 72286317

Autorenporträt

Laura Colombino is Professor of English Literature at the University of Genova, Italy, and Member of the Academia Europaea. She has a longstanding focus on transdisciplinary studies, in particular, the relationship between writing and the visual arts; architectural spaces and their embodiment; the interplay of trauma, cultural memory and the city; and, most recently, the nonhuman. She is the author of Ford Madox Ford: Vision, Visuality and Writing (2008) and Spatial Politics in Contemporary London Literature: Writing Architecture and the Body (Routledge, 2013). She has edited and coedited books on Ford Madox Ford (2009, 2013; Routledge, 2019) and sits on the editorial board of the Ford Madox Ford: Complete Works (Oxford University Press). She has published essays and articles on Victorian and modernist novelists and travel writers (Thomas Hardy, Robert Byron, Ford Madox Ford and Aldous Huxley), contemporary writers (especially Ian McEwan, J.G. Ballard and Ian Sinclair) and visual artists (Massimiliano Pelletti and Lee Bul). Most recently, she has written a chapter for A Companion to Charles Dickens, Second Edition (forthcoming) and another for The Cambridge Companion to Kazuo Ishiguro (2023).

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction: Ishiguro's ethical, existential and emotional worlds
1. What is a Good Life? The Remains of the Day as an aporetic dialogue on
dignity
2. Wounded Idealists Travel the World: Anxiety, Responsibility and
Retribution in The Unconsoled and When We Were Orphans
3. Not at Home in the World: Longing for the Possible and Caring for the
Other in Never Let Me Go
4. Ethics, Myth and the Narrative Voice in The Buried Giant
5. The Soul's Desire for the Good: Heliotropic Mythology and Anamorphic
Mirrors in Klara and the Sun
Coda: Ethics and the Arena of Conflicting Emotions
Index