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Never Let Me Go
Never Let Me Go
- The Storyteller’s Nostos : Recreating Scheherazade and Odysseus in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go
"This article studies the account of Kathy H., protagonist of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go (2005), as the confluence of narratives through which an individual and her community construct their identity based on the remembrance of the events that have marked their lives, as well as on the literary texts and cultural conventions that have served as the archetypes upon which the narratives of their lives are built ... " - Decency, Hope, and the Substitution of Memory in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go."Set in a parallel dystopian universe in the 1990s, Kazuo Ishiguro’sNever Let Me Go chronicles the lives of three students who are reared, come of age, and find their way in (and ultimately out of) England ... "
- Recollecting Memories, Reconstructing Identities: Narrators as Storytellers in Kazuo Ishiguro's "When We Were Orphans" and "Never Let Me Go""In his novels, Kazuo Ishiguro uses the narrators as storytellers, both in a Benjaminian and in an Arendtian sense. He uses this literary strategy in order to connect his characters' construction of identity to their fragmented memory, a process which allows them to recover from their phantasmal and unresolved past ... "
- Memory and Nostalgia in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go: A Psychoanalytical Study"Most of Ishiguro’s characters in this novel, Never Let Me Go, brood over their nostalgic, traumatic past and inevitable
traumatic future. In this paper the researcher works with psychoanalytic lens to highlight how memory and nostalgia play a major role in creating an emotional force which uncovers the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go." - The Dynamics of Memory and Human Connection in "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro"In Kazuo Ishiguro's novel "Never Let Me Go," memory and human connection play pivotal
roles in shaping the characters' identities and relationships. This research paper explores the
complex dynamics of memory and human connection within the context of a dystopian
society where human clones, known as donors, are created for organ harvesting." - Mortality and Memory in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go"This article offers a reading of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go as a meditation on human mortality. Set in an alternative England in the 1990s, the tragic love story revolves around the relationship between three human clones. The novel depicts the trio’s growing awareness of their fate and the way they cope with the pressure and anxiety consequent on understanding what lies before them. The article investigates how the situation reflects human beings’ confrontation with mortality. The discussion places an emphasis on the link between mortality and memory, which is posited as a function of the mind that can help assuage the psychic trauma of mortality in the story."
Blade Runner
Blade Runner
- Catching 'tears in the rain': Blade Runner and the archiving of memory and identity
"As rogue replicant Roy Batty reflects on imminent death at the end of Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, he expresses regret that his memories will be lost forever ‘like tears in the rain’. A connection between Batty’s world and that of the archivist does not readily come to mind during this climactic encounter between Blade Runner Rick Deckard and the leader of a group of Nexus 6 biorobotic androids. Yet Roy’s emotional soliloquy points to the important role of the archivist in the preservation of memory, and its place as a defining element of human identity ... "
- Prosthetic Memory: Total Recall and Blade Runner" ... What exposes the replicants ... is not the lack of empathy as much as the lack of a past - the lack of memories ... This scene... attempts to establish memory as the locus of humanity ... "
- Philip K. Dick and Philosophy : Do Androids Have Kindred Spirits?
" ... In Philip K. Dick and Philosophy thirty Dick fans and professional thinkers confront the fascinating and frightening ideas raised by Dick's mind-blowing fantasies ... - Are Blade Runner’s Replicants “Human”? Descartes and Locke Have Some Thoughts"Perhaps nothing is more emblematic of Ridley Scott’s 1982 dystopian film Blade Runner than the Voight-Kampff test administered by the movie’s titular law enforcers, including Harrison Ford as Rick Deckard. The series of questions in the fictional test ... are designed to separate out humans from replicants by provoking a physiological response indicating empathy. Only true humans, not replicants, feel that emotion ... "
- Blade Runner - Memories, nexus between mankind and replicants"Literature and cinema are works of art that usually work together. The latter needs the
former in order to develop the story that will be shown on the big screen. On this occasion, we will analyse the adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? into cinema: Blade Runner ... "
- Memory, Photography and performing the ‘human’ in Blade Runner"The opening scene of Blade Runner presents us with the vision of a futuristic city that breathes fire, lightning and smoke like a fantastic and primeval dragon; but then it also ruptures this atavistic vision by conjuring multiple spaceships from an imaginary of the ‘future’ that whiz past our point of view. And then we are presented with our ‘point of view’- an all-seeing eye that fills up the frame and brackets the scene we have witnessed before as if reproducing our own experience of watching the scene ... "