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Kazuo Ishiguro speaks in Dominican author series
No full textKazuo Ishiguro, author of The Remains of the Day, spoke at Dominican on April 1, as part of Dominican’s Spring Author Series, presented in partnership with Book Passage
Letter from Kazuo Ito to Lea Perry, July 15, 1942
No full textTranscript of a letter from Kazuo Ito to Lea Perry. The original letters are housed with the Sonoma County Japanese American Citizens League (JACL), and were borrowed for digitization courtesy of the JACL, December 2014. Digital reproduction of the original item is found in item: ssu_nbea_0010.The North Bay Ethnic Archive features material related to the forced relocation of northern San Francisco Bay Area residents to the Granada (Amache) incarceration camp, Colorado. It includes correspondence, photographs, and reports. Some of the original items are housed with the Sonoma County Japanese American Citizens League (JACL), and were borrowed for digitization courtesy of the JACL. The remainder are housed in Special Collections
Letter from Kazuo Ito to Lea Perry, August 13 1942
No full textTranscript of a letter from Kazuo Ito to Lea Perry. The original letters are housed with the Sonoma County Japanese American Citizens League (JACL), and were borrowed for digitization courtesy of the JACL, December 2014. Digital reproduction of the original item is found in item: ssu_nbea_0012.The North Bay Ethnic Archive features material related to the forced relocation of northern San Francisco Bay Area residents to the Granada (Amache) incarceration camp, Colorado. It includes correspondence, photographs, and reports. Some of the original items are housed with the Sonoma County Japanese American Citizens League (JACL), and were borrowed for digitization courtesy of the JACL. The remainder are housed in Special Collections
Kazuo Ishiguro: Twenty-First Century Perspectives
No full textIncluding the first published essay on his latest novel, Klara and the Sun (2021), Kazuo Ishiguro: Twenty First Century Perspectives is the first work of criticism to reappraise all of this leading transnational author’s film, television, short fiction, and novel writing following his award of the Nobel Prize in 2017. Comprising contributions from world-leading Ishiguro scholars, as well as emergent scholars, the collection offers chapters devoted to all of the author’s major works, each of which draws out thematic and stylistic connections across his writings, both literary and filmic. This timely study, following the critical and popular success of his most recent fiction, knighthood, and recognition by the Nobel committee, is the only comprehensive study of an author at the forefront of world literature.</p
Kazuo Ishiguro: Twenty-First Century Perspectives
No full textIncluding the first published essay on his latest novel, Klara and the Sun (2021), Kazuo Ishiguro: Twenty First Century Perspectives is the first work of criticism to reappraise all of this leading transnational author’s film, television, short fiction, and novel writing following his award of the Nobel Prize in 2017. Comprising contributions from world-leading Ishiguro scholars, as well as emergent scholars, the collection offers chapters devoted to all of the author’s major works, each of which draws out thematic and stylistic connections across his writings, both literary and filmic. This timely study, following the critical and popular success of his most recent fiction, knighthood, and recognition by the Nobel committee, is the only comprehensive study of an author at the forefront of world literature.</p
Lease #2 transfer from Kazuo Endo to Yoshiko Kawaguchi, Carson Estate Company, January 9, 1947
No full textTransfer agreement signed by Kazuo Endo, Yoshiko Kawaguchi and Hamilton H. Cotton of Carson Estate Compan
Reading Kazuo Ishiguro as an International Author
No full textKazuo Ishiguro je mezinárodně uznávaným spisovatelem a také tématem této práce. Je autorem knih jako Soumrak dne (Remains of the Day), Neopouštěj mě (Never Let Me Go) nebo Klára a slunce (Klara and the Sun). Ishiguro je původem z Japonska, ale jeho rodina se přestěhovala do Anglie, když mu bylo pět let. Tyto země měly velký dopad na jeho literární začátky. Hlavním záměrem práce je popsat cestu Ishigury od jeho "lokálně anglických/japonských" spisovatelských pořátků k přeměně na kosmopolitního autora. K pochopení této cesty stručně popisuji jeho beletrii z minulého století. Hlouběji rozebírám jeho tři knihy z 21. století, Neopouštěj mě (Never Let Me Go), Pohřbený obr (The Buried Giant) a Klára a slunce (Klara and the Sun) a povídku 'A Village After Dark' (nepřeloženo). Vrcholem kariéry jakéhokoli autora je získání významné ceny. Pro Ishigura tím bylo udělení Nobelovy ceny za literaturu roku 2017, což je podstatné pro jeho mezinárodnost. Pro zdůraznění Ishigurových schopností psát pro mezinárodní publikum se zaměřuji na hlavní témata jeho příběhů. Rozebírám je s cílem zdůraznit úmyslný odklon od kulturních specifik a naopak, soustředění se na mezikulturní myšlenky, jako například lidskost a vzpomínky. Dále je pro práci zásadní přechod Ishigury do jiných knižních žánrů, tedy odchýlení se od historického realismu. To mu umožnilo vytvořit nezapomenutelné příběhy přesahující národní záležitosti.ObhájenoThe thesis explores the internationally recognized novelist Kazuo Ishiguro, author of The Remains of the Day, Never Let Me Go and Klara and the Sun, to mention the most acclaimed books. The start of his career and thereby his initial novels deal with Japan and England, two of his homelands. Ishiguro is originally from Japan, but his family moved to England when he was five years old. The main purpose of the thesis is to describe Ishiguro's path from being a "local English/Japanese writer" to becoming a cosmopolitan one. To understand this journey, I will briefly describe his novel from the previous century. A deeper analysis is dedicated to his three novels from the 21st century, Never Let Me Go, The Buried Giant and Klara and the Sun, and a short story 'A Village After Dark'. The utmost highlight of any writer's career is the earning of a major award. Therefore, the Nobel Prize for Literature awarded to Ishiguro in 2017 is of great importance to his "internationality" and likewise to this thesis. To emphasize Ishiguro's ability to write for the international audience, I will detail the major themes in his stories and dissect them to outline his intentional avoidance of cultural topics to focus on transcultural ideas, meaning themes of humanity. Furthermore, the exploration of different genres is of great concern to this thesis. Those diversions from Ishiguro's original historical realism allowed him to create unforgettable stories transcending national matters
Impersonal Presence: Kazuo Hara’s Sennan Asbestos Disaster and Minamata Mandala
No full textThis review essay discusses the function of documentary in the field of hazard exposure and health effect by closely examining Kazuo Hara’s two films: Sennan Asbestos Disaster and Minamata Mandala. The author first historicizes the ways environmental hazards, such as radioactive pollutants, have been documented on film from both fictional and non-fictional perspectives in Japan. Realizing the limitations of science for establishing causal relations between hazard exposure and disease, efforts to visualize harm are therefore important in these sites to conduct previously “undone science.” The author particularly focuses on the concept of “environmental publics” as the infrastructure of such cross-disciplinary works. In the second part of the essay, the author examines in detail the style and production of Kazuo Hara’s documentaries, arguing about the active role the director’s camera plays in facilitating the act of speaking by his interviewees, indirectly enabling their witness to the atrocious exposure that was causing their poor health
The Author and the Narrator in the Novel by Kazuo Ishiguro "The Remains of the Day"
No full textBakalaura darba “Autors un stāstītājs Kadzuo Išiguro romānā ‘Dienas atlikusī daļa’” autors fokusējas uz tādiem jēdzieniem kā ‘autors’ un ‘stāstītājs’ romānā, ko lasītājiem pasniedz stāstītājs, virssulainis Stīvens. Bakalaura darba mērķis ir veikt romāna tēmu analīzi, ko lasītājiem atspoguļo netiešais autors, kā arī veikt romāna stāstītāja analīzi ar nolūku pierādīt darba hipotēzi, kas norāda, ka Stīvens ir neuzticams stāstītājs. Pētījuma laikā tiek izmantotas gan teorētiskās, gan praktiskās metodes. Teorētiskā metode tiek atspoguļota teorētiskā materiāla studēšanā, toties praktiskā metode tiek atspoguļota romāna netiešā autora un stāstītāja analīzē.
Bakalaura darba teorētiskajā daļā autors apskata teorijas, kas izskaidro jēdzienus ‘autors’ un ‘stāstītājs’, ka arī ar to saistītajām parādībām – netiešo autoru, stāstījumu, stāstījuma laiku un personu, stāstītāja viedokli un uzticamību. Darba autors atsaucas uz teorijām, ko izteikuši tādi literatūras kritiķi kā Ženē, Polons, Frīdmanis, un Uspenskis.
Darba praktiskajā daļā autors veic romāna netiešā autora un stāstītāja analīzi, kā arī ar piemēriem no teksta pierāda pētījuma sākuma izvirzīto hipotēzi, ka romāna stāstītājs virssulainis Stīvens var būt klasificēts kā neuzticams stāstītājs.
Atslēgas vārdi: autors, stāstītājs, stāstījuma laiks un persona, stāstītāja viedoklis un uzticamība, Kadzuo Išiguro, ‘Dienas atlikusī daļa’.The author of the Bachelor thesis “The Author and the Narrator in the Novel by Kazuo Ishiguro The Remains of the Day” focuses on the notions of the author and the narrator in the story presented by the narrator Stevens. The purpose of the research is to analyse the themes of the novel expressed by the implied author, as well as to analyse the narrator of the novel in order to prove the hypothesis of the paper, which claims that Stevens is unreliable narrator. The research methods used by the author are both theoretical and practical. Theoretical methods are manifested in studying of the theoretical materials on the notions of the author and the narrator, while practical methods are manifested in the analysis of the implied author and the narrator of the novel.
In the theoretical part of the thesis, the theories on the notions of the author and the narrator, and related to it phenomena of narratology, narration, narrator, tense, omniscience, voice and person, focalization, distance, reliability, and narration time, referring to the theories of such literary experts as Genette, Pouillon, Friedman, and Uspenskii. In the practical part of the paper, the analysis of the implied author and the narrator of the novel is carried out. The hypothesis of the paper is proved, providing relevant examples from the text.
Key words: author, narrator, voice, person, focalization, point of view, distance, reliability, Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Da
Letter from Lea Perry to Kazuo Ito, November 27, 1942
No full textTranscript of a letter from Lea Perry to Kazuo Ito. The original letters are housed with the Sonoma County Japanese American Citizens League (JACL), and were borrowed for digitization courtesy of the JACL, December 2014. Digital reproduction of the original item is found in item: ssu_nbea_9024.The North Bay Ethnic Archive features material related to the forced relocation of northern San Francisco Bay Area residents to the Granada (Amache) incarceration camp, Colorado. It includes correspondence, photographs, and reports. Some of the original items are housed with the Sonoma County Japanese American Citizens League (JACL), and were borrowed for digitization courtesy of the JACL. The remainder are housed in Special Collections
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