The giants beneath: Cultural memory and literature in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant

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dc.contributor.authorBorowska-Szerszun, Sylwia
dc.contributor.organizationUniwersytet w Białymstokuen
dc.date.accessioned2017-11-30T09:36:19Z
dc.date.available2017-11-30T09:36:19Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description.abstractDrawing on the approaches of discussing the concept of memory within literary studies, as delineated by Erll and Nünning (2005), this paper examines The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro as a site of ‘memory of literature’ and as a ‘medium of cultural memory’. Reworking the well-known cultural motif of quest, Ishiguro’s novel also evokes associations with the medieval literary tradition, especially Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and contemporary fantasy literature, understood as a mode of writing rather than a formula. It is also argued that by referring to a fictional past of Arthurian romances rather than historiography, the novel comments on the role of literature in creating cultural remembrance, becoming a specific metaphor of its processes.en
dc.identifier.citationBorowska-Szerszun, Sylwia. (2017). The giants beneath: Cultural memory and literature in Kazuo Ishiguro's The Buried Giant. Crossroads. A Journal of English Studies. 10.15290/cr.2016.15.4.03.
dc.identifier.othere-ISSN 2300-6250
dc.identifier.urihttps://open.icm.edu.pl/handle/123456789/13374
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUniwersytet w Białymstokuen
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dc.subjectKazuo Ishiguroen
dc.subjectThe Buried Gianten
dc.subjectmemory of literatureen
dc.subjectcultural memoryen
dc.subjectfantasyen
dc.subjectJ.R.R. Tolkienen
dc.subjectSir Gawain and the Green Knighten
dc.titleThe giants beneath: Cultural memory and literature in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Gianten
dc.typearticleen
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