Cultural Differences In The Short Story A Family Affair By Kazuo Ishiguro

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Cultural differences in the short story "A Family Affair" by Kazuo Ishiguro

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Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3346165159
Total Pages : 23 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (461 download)

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Download or read book Cultural differences in the short story "A Family Affair" by Kazuo Ishiguro written by and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2018 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 3,0, University of Bayreuth, language: English, abstract: This essay firstly looks at the culture model by Hofstede and its description of the Japanese culture in contrast to the American culture. Using this knowledge of both cultures it analyses the short story "A Family Affair" written by Kazuo Ishiguro. In his short story he describes the returning of a son from the United States, back to his traditional japanese family in Japan. Kazuo Ishiguro uses the clash of traditions, namly the American one versus the traditional Japanese one, to show the differences in both cultures.

Analysis of Kazuo Ishiguro’s "A Family Supper"

Author : Rajanikanta Das
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3656229457
Total Pages : 7 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (562 download)

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Download or read book Analysis of Kazuo Ishiguro’s "A Family Supper" written by Rajanikanta Das and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2012-07-04 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, Ruhr-University of Bochum, language: English, abstract: Kazuo Ishiguro’s 1982 short story A Family Supper tells the story of a Japanese family, sitting down to dinner together for the first time in years. Having lived in California for several years, the son returns to Tokyo to his father’s house. While they wait for the arrival of the daughter, Kikuko, the son and the father talk a little about the mother’s death, the collapse of the father’s firm, and the son’s plans for the future. When Kikuko joins them, the father goes off to prepare the supper, leaving the brother and sister to take a stroll in the garden together where Kikuko talks about her life at university. They also recall their childhood fears of the ghost the son believes to have seen in the garden once. Before dinner, the father decides to show his son around the house. While they are eating, the son confuses a picture of his mother with the appearance of the garden ghost he remembers, which angers his father. The short story closes with the father inviting his son to come home again and confiding his hopes that his daughter may return home too.

The Unconsoled

Author : Kazuo Ishiguro
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 030776415X
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book The Unconsoled written by Kazuo Ishiguro and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-09-05 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the universally acclaimed author of The Remains of the Day comes a mesmerizing novel of completely unexpected mood and matter--a seamless, fictional universe, both wholly unrecognizable and familiar. When the public, day-to-day reality of a renowned pianist takes on a life of its own, he finds himself traversing landscapes that are by turns eerie, comical, and strangely malleable.

A Pale View of Hills

Author : Kazuo Ishiguro
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307829073
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book A Pale View of Hills written by Kazuo Ishiguro and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-09-05 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prize–winning novel The Remains of the Day Here is the story of Etsuko, a Japanese woman now living alone in England, dwelling on the recent suicide of her daughter. In a novel where past and present confuse, she relives scenes of Japan's devastation in the wake of World War II.

Ethics in Culture

Author : Astrid Erll
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110206552
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Ethics in Culture written by Astrid Erll and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2008-08-27 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alongside the recent cultural turn in the humanities, there has been a noticeable return to ethical considerations. With regard to literature as well as other media, this has rekindled awareness of a tension, antagonism, or even disparity between ethics and aesthetics. This volume of articles takes a more systematic and cross-disciplinary approach to the widely mooted ethical turn in literature and other media than has been pursued so far. It brings together a wide range of critical perspectives from literary studies, media and cultural memory studies, and philosophy, tracing the complex and sometimes conflicting relationship between ethics and aesthetics in theoretical contexts and individual case studies as diverse as colonial architecture, nineteenth-century literary histories, and postmodern writing and art.

The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature

Author : David Scott Kastan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199725314
Total Pages : 2656 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature written by David Scott Kastan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-03-03 with total page 2656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From folk ballads to film scripts, this new five-volume encyclopedia covers the entire history of British literature from the seventh century to the present, focusing on the writers and the major texts of what are now the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. In five hundred substantial essays written by major scholars, the Encyclopedia of British Literature includes biographies of nearly four hundred individual authors and a hundred topical essays with detailed analyses of particular themes, movements, genres, and institutions whose impact upon the writing or the reading of literature was significant. An ideal companion to The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature, this set will prove invaluable for students, scholars, and general readers. For more information, including a complete table of contents and list of contributors, please visit www.oup.com/us/ebl

Pictures from the Water Trade

Author : John David Morley
Publisher : St Martins Press
ISBN 13 : 9780312135874
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book Pictures from the Water Trade written by John David Morley and published by St Martins Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author describes his experiences as a student in Japan and offers an inside look at the nightclubs and geisha bars of Tokyo

Work, Study, Travel Abroad

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Work, Study, Travel Abroad written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

When We Were Orphans

Author : Kazuo Ishiguro
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0375412654
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (754 download)

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Download or read book When We Were Orphans written by Kazuo Ishiguro and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2001-01-16 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prize–winning novel The Remains of the Day comes this stunning work of soaring imagination. Born in early twentieth-century Shanghai, Banks was orphaned at the age of nine after the separate disappearances of his parents. Now, more than twenty years later, he is a celebrated figure in London society; yet the investigative expertise that has garnered him fame has done little to illuminate the circumstances of his parents' alleged kidnappings. Banks travels to the seething, labyrinthine city of his memory in hopes of solving the mystery of his own painful past, only to find that war is ravaging Shanghai beyond recognition—and that his own recollections are proving as difficult to trust as the people around him. Masterful, suspenseful and psychologically acute, When We Were Orphans offers a profound meditation on the shifting quality of memory, and the possibility of avenging one’s past.

BBC Worldwide

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 634 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book BBC Worldwide written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

An Artist of the Floating World

Author : Kazuo Ishiguro
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307829065
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book An Artist of the Floating World written by Kazuo Ishiguro and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-09-05 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prize–winning novel The Remains of the Day In the face of the misery in his homeland, the artist Masuji Ono was unwilling to devote his art solely to the celebration of physical beauty. Instead, he put his work in the service of the imperialist movement that led Japan into World War II. Now, as the mature Ono struggles through the aftermath of that war, his memories of his youth and of the "floating world"—the nocturnal world of pleasure, entertainment, and drink—offer him both escape and redemption, even as they punish him for betraying his early promise. Indicted by society for its defeat and reviled for his past aesthetics, he relives the passage through his personal history that makes him both a hero and a coward but, above all, a human being.

The Remains of the Day

Author : Kazuo Ishiguro
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307576183
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book The Remains of the Day written by Kazuo Ishiguro and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-07-15 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, here is “an intricate and dazzling novel” (The New York Times) about the perfect butler and his fading, insular world in post-World War II England. This is Kazuo Ishiguro's profoundly compelling portrait of a butler named Stevens. Stevens, at the end of three decades of service at Darlington Hall, spending a day on a country drive, embarks as well on a journey through the past in an effort to reassure himself that he has served humanity by serving the "great gentleman," Lord Darlington. But lurking in his memory are doubts about the true nature of Lord Darlington's "greatness," and much graver doubts about the nature of his own life.

Love

Author : Elizabeth Von Arnim
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Love written by Elizabeth Von Arnim and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English

Author : Lorna Sage
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521668132
Total Pages : 708 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (681 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English written by Lorna Sage and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-09-30 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An alphabetized volume on women writers, major titles, movements, genres from medieval times to the present.

Interpreter of Maladies

Author : Jhumpa Lahiri
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 039592720X
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (959 download)

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Download or read book Interpreter of Maladies written by Jhumpa Lahiri and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1999 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In nine stories imbued with the sensual details of Indian culture, Lahiri charts the emotional journeys of characters seeking love beyond the barriers of nations and generations.

Self-deception and Insight. The Concept of Unreliable Narration in Kazuo Ishiguro's "The Remains of the Day"

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Author : Sebastian Göb
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3638055450
Total Pages : 13 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Self-deception and Insight. The Concept of Unreliable Narration in Kazuo Ishiguro's "The Remains of the Day" written by Sebastian Göb and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2015-12-18 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,75, University of Frankfurt (Main), 10 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: This text examines the concept of unreliable narration in Kazuo Ishiguro's "The Remains of the Day". Against the background of the novel's plot the questions arises to what extent the reader can trust the first person narrator Stevens, who is recalling events that have taken place almost 30 years ago. Is he always telling nothing but the truth or does he deliberately leave out important facts that might cast a slur at him or other persons in the novel or perhaps might destroy his self-image as a professional butler. Stevens pretends to be an honourable butler but how far can he be regarded to be honest to the reader respectively the narratee whome he addresses explicitly (Ishiguro 2005: 8 “Nevertheless, I think you will understand [...]”)? In this context it is even more important to question his honesty towards himself; does he relentlessly tell the truth or does he betray even himself? In order to answer these evolving questions it is first of all necessary to give a brief outline of the literal terms point of view and unreliable narration in general. Being familiar with these expressions the next step that leads to a better understanding of the protagonist’s character is the analysis of the narrative structure in “The Remains of the Day”. This chapter includes the examination of the novel’s language as well as the point of view and the (un)reliability of the narrator. As far as the question of (un)reliability is answered it is mandatory to consider Stevens’ blindness and to ask if in the end a possible insight can be detected. This chapter has to be subdivided which means it has to be regarded in either an ideological /political context as well as in a private /social context. Finally, in the conclusion the findings will be summarized in order to answer the question: To what extent can self-deception and insight be detected with the (un)reliable narrator Stevens in Kazuo Ishiguros Novel “The Remains of the Day”?

I Am Not Sidney Poitier

Author : Percival Everett
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1555970192
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (559 download)

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Download or read book I Am Not Sidney Poitier written by Percival Everett and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2011-08-02 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I Am Not Sidney Poitier is an irresistible comic novel from the master storyteller Percival Everett, and an irreverent take on race, class, and identity in America I was, in life, to be a gambler, a risk-taker, a swashbuckler, a knight. I accepted, then and there, my place in the world. I was a fighter of windmills. I was a chaser of whales. I was Not Sidney Poitier. Not Sidney Poitier is an amiable young man in an absurd country. The sudden death of his mother orphans him at age eleven, leaving him with an unfortunate name, an uncanny resemblance to the famous actor, and, perhaps more fortunate, a staggering number of shares in the Turner Broadcasting Corporation. Percival Everett's hilarious new novel follows Not Sidney's tumultuous life, as the social hierarchy scrambles to balance his skin color with his fabulous wealth. Maturing under the less-than watchful eye of his adopted foster father, Ted Turner, Not gets arrested in rural Georgia for driving while black, sparks a dinnertable explosion at the home of his manipulative girlfriend, and sleuths a murder case in Smut Eye, Alabama, all while navigating the recurrent communication problem: "What's your name?" a kid would ask. "Not Sidney," I would say. "Okay, then what is it?"