Books like Kazuo Ishiguro in a Global Context
12 books with a reading profile close to Kazuo Ishiguro in a Global Context by Cynthia F. Wong, Hulya Yildiz. Deep and contemplative; a demanding read.
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Hidden Paths
Also deep · analytical, academic
Chiara Thumiger examines the construction of the human self in classical Athens through a close philological analysis of Euripides’ Bacchae.
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Earthsea revisioned
Also deep and contemplative · analytical, academic
In this published lecture, Ursula K.
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Lectures on Don Quixote
by Vladimir Nabokov, Fredson Bowers
Also deep · analytical, academic
This volume collects Vladimir Nabokov’s classroom lectures delivered at Harvard, focusing on Miguel de Cervantes’ classic novel.
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Essays of three decades
by Thomas Mann
Also deep and contemplative · academic, dense
This collection brings together sixteen of Mann’s non-fiction pieces written between 1911 and 1937, focusing on the intellectual heritage of Europe.
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Victorian novelists
Also deep and contemplative · analytical, academic
Lord David Cecil provides a critical analysis of the major figures who defined the nineteenth-century English novel, including Dickens, Thackeray, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Mrs.
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Dostoevsky
Also deep and contemplative · academic, dense
Joseph Frank situates Fyodor Dostoevsky’s literary evolution within the heated ideological conflicts of nineteenth-century Russia.
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Kazuo Ishiguro
by Wai-chew Sim
analytical, academic
Wai-chew Sim provides a technical examination of Kazuo Ishiguro’s prose from his debut through the publication of Never Let Me Go.
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New essays on the Catcher in the Rye
by Jack Salzman
analytical, academic
This collection of critical studies reevaluates J.D.
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Aldous Huxley's Brave new world
by Harold Bloom
Also deep · analytical, academic
In this volume of the Modern Critical Interpretations series, Harold Bloom compiles academic essays that dissect the mechanics of a world governed by biological engineering and forced hedonism.
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Francis Bacon and the Loss of Self
Also deep · analytical, academic
Ernst van Alphen shifts the focus of Francis Bacon’s scholarship from the depicted agony within the frame to the psychological impact exerted upon the observer.
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Reading Khaled Hosseini
analytical, academic
Rebecca Stuhr provides a comprehensive guide to understanding the literary landscape and historical context of Khaled Hosseini’s first two novels, The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns.
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