Kazuo Ishiguro

SEBASTIAN GROES is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Roehampton University, UK. BARRY LEWIS is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Sunderland, UK.

• List of IllustrationsList of AbbreviationsPreface; B.ShafferAcknowledgementsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: 'It's Good Manners Really': Kazuo Ishiguro and the Ethic of Empathy; S.Groes &B.LewisPART I: CRITICAL OVERVIEWSKazuo Ishiguro's Not Too Late Modernism; P.WaughThe Pedagogics of Liminality: Rites of Passage in the Work of Kazuo Ishiguro; V.SageLost 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.StamirowskaPART 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.BennettPART 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.HammondNovelistic Practice and Ethical Philosophy in Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day; L.CooperReading Ishiguro's The Remainsof the Day: Working Through England's Traumatic Past as a Critique of Thacherism; C.BerberichPART IV: THE UNCONSOLEDInto the Labyrinth: Reading Ishiguro's Surrealist Poetics in The Unconsoled; J.BaxterWaiting for the performance to Begin: Kazuo Ishiguro's Musical magination in The Unconsoled and Nocturnes; G.SmythInto Ever Stranger Territories: Kazuo Ishiguro's The Unconsoled as Minor Literature; T.JarvisPART V: WHEN WE WERE ORPHANS'In the End it has to Shatter': Ironic Doubleness of Kazuo Ishiguro's When We Were Orphans; C.RingroseWhen We Were Orphans: The Double Bind and the Vocational Imperative; A.WebleyPART VI: NEVER LET ME GOThe Concertina Effect in Kazuo ishiguro's Never Let Me Go; B.LewisSomething 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.LochnerNever Let Me Go and 'Outsider' Science Fiction; A.SawyerThe New Seriousness: Kazuo Ishiguro in Conversation with Sebastian GroesBibliographyIndex.