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Ana-karina Schneider
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Alexander Search with Suman Gupta, Fabio Akcelrud Durão and Terrence McDonough. Entrepreneurial Literary Theory: A Debate on Research and the Future …
2017
Irvine Welsh in Sibiu
2017
Skin as a Trope of Liminality in Anne Enright's The Gathering
2013
Reading Kazuo Ishiguro’s “Bewilderment Trilogy” as Bildungsromane
2018
Abstract In this essay, Kazuo Ishiguro’s “Bewilderment Trilogy” is read as a series of Bildungsromane that test the limits of that genre. In these thematically unrelated novels, characters reach critical points in their lives when they are confronted with the ways in which their respective childhoods have shaped their grownup expectations and professional careers. In each, the protagonist has a successful career, whether as a musician (The Unconsoled), a detective (When We Were Orphans), or a carer (Never Let Me Go), but finds it difficult to overcome childhood trauma. Ishiguro’s treatment of childhood in these novels foregrounds the tension between individual subjectivity and the formal st…