Memory ethics and_the_unreliable_narrato

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Memory, ethics and the unreliable narrator in An Artist of the Floating Worl...

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interpretations, I explore the difference between how the narrators view and...

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CONTENTS PAGE
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 4
CHAPTER 2: AN ARTIST OF THE FLOATING...

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CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION
My dissertation focuses on the relationships between...

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The narrators in my chosen novels may initially be considered victims of
cir...

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things would have been technically rather irksome, if I had had to keep
refe...

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and three. Both Ono and Stevens manipulate the truth and distort their own h...

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‘ mock reader’ because you are unfamiliar with what ‘collections’ are at thi...

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Kenton, the contents of the letter and the repression inherent in the questi...

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duties indicates his desire to live up to the high expectations he has set ...

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relationship between art and fiction – are essentially secondary to his pri...

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CHAPTER 2: AN ARTIST OF THE FLOATING WORLD (1986)
Masuji Ono, the aged narr...

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tutelage of the artist Master Moriyama, Ono is approached by an amateur art...

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does not stop to consider the implications of what he is doing until both W...

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novel, all of which are relevant to a discussion of An Artist of the Floati...

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powerful metaphor for the repressed emotions he must resist from surfacing ...

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an official adviser to the Committee of Unpatriotic Activities’ (p. 182) du...

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benefit of hindsight, it is too dismissive of his artistic talent to intima...

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only ones who care now’ (p. 201). Yet Ono cannot accept this stance, as he
...

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long as he can maintain the illusion of having been influential’ .20 When J...

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than they did anything guilty in any criminal sense’ .21 Ono did not choose...

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war’ .23 Ono even asks his son-in-law, Taro, ‘ don’ t you worry at times we...

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criminals” . The best illustration of this U-turn in Ishiguro’ s book is th...

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CHAPTER 3: THE REMAINS OF THE DAY (1989)
Wolfgang Iser asserts that ‘ no ta...

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of one’ s professional role as a butler derives from the moral standing of ...

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few months previously, whereby a visitor to Darlington Hall – the American ...

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‘ Stevens oscillates between reporting, even recreating, the past and probi...

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the hierarchy, and hope that our loyalty is used well’ .36 Stevens preserve...

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the fact that Darlington defined a newspaper as a ‘ Jewish propaganda sheet...

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wrong, a sin as any sin ever was one and I will not continue to work in suc...

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Darlington, it is likely that, at the time, he mistakenly believed the deci...

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viewpoint. Veyret reads the novel as ‘the voice of the margin speaking abou...

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to Darlington Hall after a prolonged absence. His unreliability becomes inc...

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telling her not to ‘ think me unduly improper in not ascending to see my fa...

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accepting his flaws. Telling his story brings Stevens out of the past and i...

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challenging things for a reader is reconciling the fact that society’ s eth...

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A trait shared by all three narrators is that they think they are privilege...

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she is ‘ lucky’ (p. 6), describes the ‘ collections’ as being taken ‘ for g...

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always just too young to understand properly that latest piece of informati...

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part of the novel. Chrissie continues to explain that ‘ if you were a boy a...

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so long – and now, suddenly, here we were. It was definitely a bit scary’ (...

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‘ Hailsham, Miss Emily explains, was established as an experimental institu...

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104). The irony is that Kathy never fully comprehends the truth behind her ...

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she admits that she ‘ wasn’ t in the best of moods because [her] own donor ...

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which language can normalize atrocities deemed necessary in a given
ideolog...

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highlights the defensive approach Kathy has towards her profession; she fee...

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continuing role as a carer, as she has accepted her own duty as a ‘ donor’ ...

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CHAPTER 5: CONCLUSION
The themes of memory, ethics and unreliability are al...

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he constructs indicates the guilt he feels for being part of Lord Darlingto...

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the Nazis. He maintains the stance that Lord Darlington was a noble man to ...

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how Ishiguro fits into the modern British canon could develop the concerns ...

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BIBLIOGRAPHY
Primary Texts
Ishiguro, Kazuo, An Artist of the Floating World...

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Eliot, Simon and Jonathan Rose (eds), A Companion to the History of the Boo...

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Levi, Primo, trans. by Raymond Rosenthal, The Drowned and the Saved (New Yo...

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Willems, Brian, Facticity, Poverty and Clones: On Kazuo Ishiguro’ s Never L...

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