Binding: Paperback
Description: Having earned an international reputation with his booker - prize - winning novel The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro is fast emerging as an important cultural figure of our times. In this guide to Ishiguro's varied and often experimental work Wai - chew Sim presents: a biographical survey of Ishiguro's literary career and an introduction to his novels plays and short stories an accessible overview of the contexts and many interpretations of his work from publication to the present discussions of key topics in Ishiguro criticism such as narrative theory multicultural Britain and postcolonial studies psychoanalytic criticism and Ishiguro as international writer cross - references between sections of the guide in order to suggest links between texts contexts and criticism suggestions for further reading. Part of the Routledge Guides to Literature series this volume is essential reading for all those beginning detailed study of Kazuo Ishiguro and seeking not only a guide to his works but also a way through the wealth of contextual and critical material that surrounds them.
Title: Kazuo Ishiguro
Author(s): Sim Wai - Chew (Nanyang Technological University Singapore)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9780415415361
Pages: 188 Pages
Publication Date: 11/1/2009
Series: Routledge Guides to Literature
Category: Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers