{"product_id":"kazuo-ishiguros-gestural-poetics-paperback","title":"Kazuo Ishiguro's Gestural Poetics - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePeter Sloane\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough 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, \u003ci\u003eKazuo Ishiguro's Gestural Poetics\u003c\/i\u003eexamines the manner in which Ishiguro's fictions approach, but never quite reveal, the ineffable, inexpressible essence of his narrators' emotionally fraught worlds. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReformulating Martin Heidegger's suggestion that the 'essence of world can only be indicated' as 'the essence of world can only be \u003ci\u003egestured towards, \u003c\/i\u003e' 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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter Sloane \u003c\/b\u003eis a Lecturer in Contemporary Anglophone Literature at the University of Lincoln, UK. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eDavid Foster Wallace and the Body \u003c\/i\u003e(2019), and is currently working on his next book project, a study of \u003ci\u003eAltruism and the Arts\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e1900-Present.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.41 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 29, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42707298353215,"sku":"9781501377914","price":86.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/6597d045ed58c7e74be2b79f9caf2eed.webp?v=1765043550","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/kazuo-ishiguros-gestural-poetics-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}