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"If the September 11 terror attacks opened up an era of crises and exceptions of which we are yet to see the end, it is perhaps not surprising that care has emerged in the early twenty-first century as a key political issue. This book approaches contemporary narratives of care t…
List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Gestures -- Part 1 Realism -- Part 2 Modernism -- 2. Imagination -- Part 1 Games -- Part 2 Childhood Arts -- 3. Aesthetics -- 4. Architext -- 5. Space Conclusion: The Remains of the ... -- References -- Index. "Kazu…
List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Gestures -- Part 1 Realism -- Part 2 Modernism -- 2. Imagination -- Part 1 Games -- Part 2 Childhood Arts -- 3. Aesthetics -- 4. Architext -- 5. Space Conclusion: The Remains of the ... -- References -- Index "Kazuo…
List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Gestures -- Part 1 Realism -- Part 2 Modernism -- 2. Imagination -- Part 1 Games -- Part 2 Childhood Arts -- 3. Aesthetics -- 4. Architext -- 5. Space Conclusion: The Remains of the ... -- References -- Index "Kazuo…
List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Gestures -- Part 1 Realism -- Part 2 Modernism -- 2. Imagination -- Part 1 Games -- Part 2 Childhood Arts -- 3. Aesthetics -- 4. Architext -- 5. Space Conclusion: The Remains of the ... -- References -- Index. "Kazu…
Through readings of Ishiguro's repurposing of key elements of realism and modernism; his interest in childhood imagination and sketching; interrogation of aesthetics and ethics; his fascination with architecture and the absent home; and his expressionist use of 'imaginary' space…
"Kazuo Ishiguro's Gestural Poetics explores some of the more radical thematic and formal aspects of the writing of this most distinctive of novelists. Marked by great subtlety of expression, a clarity and precision of prose that is in tension with the often profound unreliabilit…
"Through readings of Ishiguro's repurposing of key elements of realism and modernism; his interest in childhood imagination and sketching; interrogation of aesthetics and ethics; his fascination with architecture and the absent home; and his expressionist use of 'imaginary' spac…
"Through readings of Ishiguro's repurposing of key elements of realism and modernism; his interest in childhood imagination and sketching; interrogation of aesthetics and ethics; his fascination with architecture and the absent home; and his expressionist use of 'imaginary' spac…
"The Deliverance of Others is a compelling reappraisal of the idea that narrative literature can expand readers' empathy. What happens if, amid the voluminous influx of otherness facilitated by globalization, we continue the tradition of valorizing literature for bringing the li…
A Two-World Author -- Across and Beyond Cultures -- Memory Can Be an Unreliable Thing -- Appearance and Pretense: Narrative Responsibility -- The Butler Did It: Diegetic Responsibility. "In this convincing and provocative study, Rebecca Suter aims to complicate our understandin…
"In this convincing and provocative study, Rebecca Suter aims to complicate our understanding of world literature by examining the creative and critical deployment of cultural stereotypes in the early novels of Kazuo Ishiguro. "World literature" has come under increasing scrutin…
