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Kazuo Ishiguro's Parody Of Popular Fiction

Posted on:2022-07-27Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:W L LiFull Text:PDF
GTID:2515306722474724Subject:Comparative Literature and World Literature
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Ishiguro is a very personal characteristics writer,his works are mostly similar theme,but the presentation is colorful,especially after entering the new century,ishiguro in frequent use of parody technique,through the use of the popular literature enclosure,to express the profound connotation of serious literature,both had distinct literary boundary of ablation.Parody is a long history and varied technique or literary style,in the ancient Greece gets the favour of the dramatist and critics,and constantly enrich themselves with the development of social and historical background,parody in different literary schools often appear as part of its theoretical criticism,showing a different connotation,so it is difficult to the outside of an accurate definition,but parodies of dual coding,comedy,as well as to the literary genre to update the role and the social function of authority,and an indispensable position in the mass culture,all make it become the most commonly used is also one of the influential technique.All like us is ishiguro published in after entering the 21 st century's first novel,was also his first in the literary creation of popular genre of parody,ishiguro put the background of the novel in world war two,and the most extensive influence in the period of popular literature,as the object,namely a classic detective story comes from the image of the characters and the plot structure,thought connotation and so on many Angle,to the genre of non-physical factors in the parody,promoted the internal update of originally old detective genre,expressed opposition to imperialism authority thought connotation,completed the detective elements with the perfect fusion of serious literature."The Buried Giant," Ishiguro's decade-long masterpiece,which won the Nobel Prize a year after its publication,is set in the nonexistence of the Arthurian era and seeks to shed light on the universal issues of war,history and memory.Ishiguro based on the legend of king of a twenty-five-stringed plucked instrument for the knight literature parodying object,overturned this variety inherent in their practice,makes the novel rich in the fantasy of showed a serious social problem,it is ishiguro expanding literary boundaries,powerful attempt to eliminate serious literature and popular literature of the border,was also his international writing's ideal.In his literary creation,Kazuo Ishiguro often uses a parody of a certain literary style.This tendency becomes more and more obvious in My Lone Children and The Buried Giant after entering the new century.Ishiguro borrow parody technique blur the line between serious literature and popular literature had distinct,is he broke the concrete practice of the literary boundary this ideal,is also one of his theory of internationalization of writing this,ishiguro is under the social background of the rapid,open a new situation for serious literature and make a contribution.
Keywords/Search Tags:Kazuo Ishiguro, Parody, Detective Fiction, Romance of Chivalry, Popular Literature
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