Shifting anxieties in the fiction of Kazuo Ishiguro and Don DeLillo
Contemporary fiction, explored through the work of Kazuo Ishiguro and Don DeLillo, complicates our understanding of how fiction evolves through time. An irregular ebb and flow of postmodern literary style from these authors’ earlier works to the present day can be detected when we analyse the sub...
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| Format: | Theses and Dissertations |
| Language: | English |
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2016
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10356/68874 |
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| Institution: | Nanyang Technological University |
| Language: | English |
| Summary: | Contemporary fiction, explored through the work of Kazuo Ishiguro and Don DeLillo,
complicates our understanding of how fiction evolves through time. An irregular ebb and flow of
postmodern literary style from these authors’ earlier works to the present day can be detected
when we analyse the subtle shifts in style between their texts. These subtle shifts are examined in
part through the lens of Harold Bloom’s The Anxiety of Influence. The fear of imaginative death
is a powerful motivator and force that shapes Ishiguro and DeLillo’s fiction that when viewed
alongside postmodern literary technique reveals significant aesthetic choices. Fundamentally,
then, postmodernism in the literary context may be understood first and foremost as a technique
that writers may choose to adopt over the course of literary history. |
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