Kazuo Ishiguro : New Critical Visions of the Novels (Paperback)

List of Illustrations.- List of Abbreviations.- Preface; B.Shaffer.- Acknowledgements.- Notes on Contributors.- Introduction: 'It's Good Manners Really': Kazuo Ishiguro and the Ethic of Empathy; S.Groes & B.Lewis.- PART I: CRITICAL OVERVIEWS.- Kazuo Ishiguro's Not Too Late Modernism; P.Waugh.- The Pedagogics of Liminality: Rites of Passage in the Work of Kazuo Ishiguro; V.Sage.- Lost and Found: On the Japanese Translations of Kazuo Ishiguro; M.Shibata.- 'One Word from You Could Alter the Course of Everything': Discourse and Identity in the Work of Kazuo Ishiguro; K.Stamirowska.- PART II: THE EARLY 'JAPANESE' WORKS .- 'In the Best of Faith': Kazuo Ishiguro's An Artist if the Floating World in Japan; M.Sugano .- 'Cemeteries are No Places for Young People': The Representation of the Child in Kazuo Ishiguro's Early Works; C.Bennett.- PART III: THE REMAINS OF THE DAY.- 'I Can't Even Say I made My Own Mistakes': the Ethics of Genre in Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day; M.Hammond.- Novelistic Practice and Ethical Philosophy in Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day; L.Cooper.- Reading Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day: Working Through England's Traumatic Past as a Critique of Thacherism; C.Berberich.- PART IV: THE UNCONSOLED.- Into the Labyrinth: Reading Ishiguro's Surrealist Poetics in The Unconsoled; J.Baxter.- Waiting for the performance to Begin: Kazuo Ishiguro's Musical magination in The Unconsoled and Nocturnes; G.Smyth.- Into Ever Stranger Territories: Kazuo Ishiguro's The Unconsoled as Minor Literature; T.Jarvis.- PART V: WHEN WE WERE ORPHANS.- 'In the End it has to Shatter': Ironic Doubleness of Kazuo Ishiguro's When We Were Orphans; C.Ringrose.- When We Were Orphans: The Double Bind and the Vocational Imperative; A.Webley.- PART VI: NEVER LET ME GO.- The Concertina Effect in Kazuo ishiguro's Never Let Me Go; B.Lewis.- Something of a Lost Corner: The Representation of East Anglia in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go; S.Groes.- 'Okay, this is as far as we can go': Scientific Discourse in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go; L.Lochner.- Never Let Me Go and 'Outsider' Science Fiction; A.Sawyer.- The New Seriousness: Kazuo Ishiguro in Conversation with Sebastian Groes.- Bibliography.- Index.