Representation of Englishness in the Narrative Structure of K. Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day

DOI

10.2991/emssese-19.2019.49How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Englishness, self-identity, narrative, literary text, chronotope, evaluation

Abstract

The article focuses on the narrative structure of K. Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day. The phenomenon of Englishness as an ambivalent category is described through the peculiarities of the narrative structure of the literary text. The linguistic study of chronotope in the text under analysis makes it possible to prove the impossibility of positive evaluation of the nostalgic cultural stereotypes associated with the idea of Englishness in the narrative. The ambivalent character of Englishness as an example of national identity crisis is revealed in the novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, a British Booker prize-winner of Japanese origin.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Ksenia Medvedkina
AU  - Anna Vostryakova
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BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on European Multilingualism: Shaping Sustainable Educational and Social Environment (EMSSESE 2019)
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