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Kazuo Ishiguro's Gestural Poetics (Hardcover)
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Kazuo Ishiguro's Gestural Poetics (Hardcover)
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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 and place, Kazuo Ishiguro's Gestural Poetics
examines the manner in which Ishiguro's fictions approach, but
never quite reveal, the ineffable, inexpressible essence of his
narrators' emotionally fraught worlds. Reformulating Martin
Heidegger's suggestion that the 'essence of world can only be
indicated' as 'the essence of world can only be gestured towards,'
Sloane argues that while Ishiguro's novels and short stories are
profoundly sensitive to the limitations of literary form, their
narrators are, to varying degrees, equally keenly attuned to the
failures of language itself. In order to communicate something of
the emotional worlds of characters adrift in various uncertainties,
while also commenting on the expressive possibilities of fiction
and the mimetic arts more widely, Ishiguro appropriates a range of
metaphors which enable both author and character to gesture towards
the undisclosable essences of fiction and being.
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