The concept of a poetics of silence has acquired a central place in literary theory in recent decades, with unreliable narration as defined by Booth (1961) playing an important part in the conceptualisation of an aesthetics of silence. Both silence and unreliable narration are key components of Kazuo Ishiguro’s writing strategy. I want to show that the poetics of silence that is so constitutive of his style was already at work at the very beginning of his writing. In order to achieve this goal, this paper studies one of Ishiguro’s first published short stories, “A Strange and Sometimes Sadness” (1981), in which a first-person narrator evokes memories of her time in Nagasaki during World War II. The narrator progressively turns out to be an ...
This thesis engages with Kazuo Ishiguro’s three novels, An Artist of the Floating World, The Remains...
This final paper deals with narration and memory in the selected novels of Kazuo Ishiguro: An Artist...
This final paper deals with narration and memory in the selected novels of Kazuo Ishiguro: An Artist...
The concept of a poetics of silence has acquired a central place in literary theory in recent decade...
L’œuvre de Ishihara Yoshirō (1915-1977), rescapé d’un camp de travail en Sibérie, pose la qu...
[[conferencetype]]國際[[conferencedate]]20120711~20120713[[iscallforpapers]]Y[[conferencelocation]]Tai...
After the defeat of Japan, ISHIHARA Yoshiro (1915-77) was detained for 8 years in Siberia, and retur...
This volume examines the various processes at work in expressing silence and excessive speech in con...
This volume examines the various processes at work in expressing silence and excessive speech in con...
Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go is a dystopian novel depicting a society in which clones are create...
This volume examines the various processes at work in expressing silence and excessive speech in con...
This thesis engages with Kazuo Ishiguro’s three novels, An Artist of the Floating World, The Remains...
This volume examines the various processes at work in expressing silence and excessive speech in con...
This volume examines the various processes at work in expressing silence and excessive speech in con...
This volume examines the various processes at work in expressing silence and excessive speech in con...
This thesis engages with Kazuo Ishiguro’s three novels, An Artist of the Floating World, The Remains...
This final paper deals with narration and memory in the selected novels of Kazuo Ishiguro: An Artist...
This final paper deals with narration and memory in the selected novels of Kazuo Ishiguro: An Artist...
The concept of a poetics of silence has acquired a central place in literary theory in recent decade...
L’œuvre de Ishihara Yoshirō (1915-1977), rescapé d’un camp de travail en Sibérie, pose la qu...
[[conferencetype]]國際[[conferencedate]]20120711~20120713[[iscallforpapers]]Y[[conferencelocation]]Tai...
After the defeat of Japan, ISHIHARA Yoshiro (1915-77) was detained for 8 years in Siberia, and retur...
This volume examines the various processes at work in expressing silence and excessive speech in con...
This volume examines the various processes at work in expressing silence and excessive speech in con...
Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go is a dystopian novel depicting a society in which clones are create...
This volume examines the various processes at work in expressing silence and excessive speech in con...
This thesis engages with Kazuo Ishiguro’s three novels, An Artist of the Floating World, The Remains...
This volume examines the various processes at work in expressing silence and excessive speech in con...
This volume examines the various processes at work in expressing silence and excessive speech in con...
This volume examines the various processes at work in expressing silence and excessive speech in con...
This thesis engages with Kazuo Ishiguro’s three novels, An Artist of the Floating World, The Remains...
This final paper deals with narration and memory in the selected novels of Kazuo Ishiguro: An Artist...
This final paper deals with narration and memory in the selected novels of Kazuo Ishiguro: An Artist...