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Revisiting loss : memory, trauma and nostalgia in the novels of Kazuo Ishiguro.
Loss is the core experience which determines the identity of Kazuo Ishiguro's narrators and shapes their subsequent lives. Whether a traumatic ordeal, an act of social degradation, a failed relationship or a loss of home, the painful event serves as a sharp dividing line between the earlier, me...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newcastle upon Tyne :
Cambridge Scholars Press,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Loss is the core experience which determines the identity of Kazuo Ishiguro's narrators and shapes their subsequent lives. Whether a traumatic ordeal, an act of social degradation, a failed relationship or a loss of home, the painful event serves as a sharp dividing line between the earlier, meaningful past and the period afterwards, which is infused with a sense of lack, dissatisfaction and nostalgia. Ishiguro's narrators have been unable to confine their loss to the past and remain preoccup ... |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (vi, 211 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1443863424 9781443863421 1443860573 9781443860574 |