Autor:
Gołębiowska, Urszula ; Kubasiewicz, Mirosława
Współtwórca:
Gołębiowska, Urszula - red. nauk. ; Kubasiewicz, Mirosława - red. nauk.
Tytuł:
Memory, myth and modernism in Kazuo Ishiguro`s "The Buried Giant"
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Temat i słowa kluczowe:
modernism ; collective memory ; individual memory ; forgetting ; involuntary memory ; myth ; Ishiguro, Kazuo (1954- )
Abstract:
Kazuo Ishiguro`s affinities with modernism have been the subject of critical studies of his earlier works, which have been found to display such modernist features as the preoccupation with psychological and moral depth and the exploration of the inner life. Correspondences with modernizm are also detectable in his most recent novel, "The Buried Giant" (2015). ; While the concern with feeling and consciousness is evident in this novel, in the following essay we argue that what inscribes "The Buried Giant" even more clearly within a new, reconfigured modernism is Ishiguro`s treatment of memory, history, and myth. ; The conception of memory that emerges in the novel shows the imprint of modernist inspirations: memory as a construction involving forgetting and repression is reminiscent of both Maurice Halbwachs`s ideas on collective memory and Sigmund Freud`s theories concerning individual memory. ; Likewise, the inevitable and unwilled return of the lost past, featured in "The Buried Giant", although not identical with Marcel Prous`s conception of involuntary memory, shows affinities with his idea. The fact that this mode of memory is firmly anchored in the body additionally highlights the modernist-like valorization of the corporeal and the intuitive over the intellectual. ; Finally, in its vision of the cyclical character of human history, the novel embraces a mythical perspective on time, rather than the spatialized, scientific time of historiography, which constitutes yet another link with modernism, the "underlying metaphysic" of which is myth.
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Zielona Góra: Oficyna Wydawnicza Uniwersytetu Zielonogórskiego
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Zeszyty Naukowe Uniwersytetu Zielonogórskiego: Seria Scripta Humana, tom 14