Kazuo Ishiguro : contemporary critical perspectives / edited by Sean Matthews and Sebastian Groes.

Table of Contents: “…Contents; Foreword: On Having a Contemporary Like Kazuo Ishiguro; Series Editors' Preface; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Chronology of Kazuo Ishiguro's Life; INTRODUCTION: 'Your Words Open Windows for Me': The Art of Kazuo Ishiguro; CHAPTER ONE: 'Somewhere Just Beneath the Surface of Things': Kazuo Ishiguro's Short Fiction; CHAPTER TWO: Strange Reads: Kazuo Ishiguro's A Pale View of Hills and An Artist of the Floating World in Japan; CHAPTER THREE: 'Like the Gateway to Another World': Kazuo Ishiguro's Screenwriting.…”
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Kazuo Ishiguro's The remains of the day : a reader' guide / Adam Parkes. by Parkes, Adam, 1966-

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Klara and the sun / Kazuo Ishiguro. by Ishiguro, Kazuo, 1954-

The buried giant : a novel / Kazuo Ishiguro. by Ishiguro, Kazuo, 1954-

Never let me go / Kazuo Ishiguro. by Ishiguro, Kazuo, 1954-

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Revisiting loss : memory, trauma and nostalgia in the novels of Kazuo Ishiguro. by Drąg, Wojciech

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Identity in Progress Tracing the Processes of Value Construction in Kazuo Ishiguro's Fiction. by Yazgı, Cihan

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The contemporary British novel since 2000 / edited by James Acheson.

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Information literacy and social justice : radical professional praxis / Lua Gregory and Shana Higgins, editors ; foreword by Toni Samek.

Table of Contents: “…"You've got to know and know properly" : citizenship in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never let me go and the aims of information literacy instruction /…”

Waiting for the end : gender and ending in the contemporary novel / Earl G. Ingersoll. by Ingersoll, Earl G., 1938-

Table of Contents: “…The lure of the story: Kazuo Ishiguro's When we were orphans --…”
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Recognition and ethics in world literature : religion, violence, and the human / Vincent Van Bever Donker. by Van Bever Donker, Vincent, 1983-

Table of Contents: “…Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction Ethics, the World, and the Postcolonial: The Case of Kazuo Ishiguro; Chapter One Anagnorisis and the Clash of Values; Chapter Two Religion and the Ethics of Remembrance; Chapter Three The Failure of Recognition; Chapter Four The Beauty of the Mortal Human; Conclusion Elizabeth Costello; Bibliography; Index.…”
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The politics of perfection : technology and creation in literature and film / Kimberly Hurd Hale. by Hale, Kimberly Hurd, 1983-

Table of Contents: “…Perfecting the human -- The City divided: Fritz Lang's Metropolis -- Of gods and robots: Ridley Scott's Prometheus -- The politics of remembering: Michael Gondry's Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind -- The price of immortality: Kazuo Ishiguro's Never let me go and natural rights in a cloned world -- Shiny people, happy people: saving the world from mankind in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and crake -- Self-guided evolution or self-destruction?…”
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Narrative care : biopolitics and the novel / Arne De Boever. by De Boever, Arne

Table of Contents: “…Coetzee's Slow man as "a biologico-literary experiment" -- A novel of care -- The welfare state -- From pastoral care to biopolitics -- Elizabeth Costello's "biologico-literary experiment" -- The politics of companionship -- Bare life and the camps in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never let me go -- Exploding care -- Biopolitics in Never let me go -- The novel as a camp -- Aesthetics of existence -- Life-writing in Paul Auster's The book of illusions -- Creation and destruction -- Life-stories (Sadism and the novel) -- The inner life of Martin Frost -- History's remains -- "Just being": on Tom McCarthy's Remainder -- Very little, almost nothing -- The pharmacology of re-enactment -- "Strategy of the real" -- The re-enactment of the novel (Re-enactment and politics) -- Synecdoche, New York -- Conclusion: Pedro Almodóvar's Talk to her as a narrative of care -- Narrative coma -- Care and gender -- Rebellions of care.…”
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The contemporary British novel / edited by James Acheson and Sarah C.E. Ross.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction; 1 Realism, Dreams and the Unconscious in the Novels of Kazuo Ishiguro; 2 Ian McEwan: Contemporary Realism and the Novel of Ideas; 3 The Unnatural Scene: The Fiction of Irvine Welsh; 4 Angela Carter's Magic Realism; 5 Facticity, or Something Like That: The Novels of James Kelman; 6 One Nation, Oneself: Politics, Place and Identity in Martin Amis' Fiction; 7 Abdulrazak Gurnah and Hanif Kureishi: Failed Revolutions; 8 Salman Rushdie's Fathers; 9 Postcolonialism and 'The Figure of the Jew': Caryl Phillips and Zadie Smith.…”
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Reading the novel in English, 1950-2000 / Brian W. Shaffer. by Shaffer, Brian W., 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Coetzee's Waiting for the barbarians (1980) -- Margaret Atwood's The handmaid's tale (1985) -- Kazuo Ishiguro's The remains of the day (1989) -- Patrick McCabe's The butcher boy (1992) -- Graham Swift's Last orders (1996).…”
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A companion to the British and Irish novel 1945-2000 / edited by Brian W. Shaffer.

Table of Contents: “…Naipaul / Timothy Weiss -- Salman Rushdie / Nico Israel -- The Irish novel after Joyce / Donna Potts -- Anita Brookner / Cheryl Alexander Malcolm -- Julian Barnes's Flaubert's parrot / Merritt Moseley -- Kazuo Ishiguro's The remains of the day / Cynthia F. Wong -- Ian McEwan / Rebecca L. …”
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Nuala : a fable / Kimmy Beach. by Beach, Kimmy, 1964-

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A sunny place for shady people : stories / by Mariana Enriquez ; translated by Megan McDowell. by Enriquez, Mariana

Reified life : speculative capital and the ahuman condition / J. Paul Narkunas. by Narkunas, J. Paul

Table of Contents: “…Speculative fictions: political aesthetics adrift in speculative capital flows -- Speculative fictions and other cartographies of life -- Between words, numbers, and things: transgenics and other objects of life in Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam trilogy -- Reification of the human: global organ harvesting and Kazuo Ishiguro's Never let me go -- Conclusion. Ahumans: a guide to nonmarket living.…”
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A companion to the British and Irish novel 1945-2000 / edited by Brian W. Shaffer.

Table of Contents: “…Naipaul / Timothy Weiss -- Salman Rushdie / Nico Israel -- The Irish novel after Joyce / Donna Potts -- Anita Brookner / Cheryl Alexander Malcolm -- Julian Barnes's Flaubert's parrot / Merritt Moseley -- Kazuo Ishiguro's The remains of the day / Cynthia F. Wong -- Ian McEwan / Rebecca L. …”
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