This essay explores discourses of emotional labour in the university novel. It focuses on
Dorothy L. Sayers's Gaudy Nigh t (1935) and Barbara Pym's No Fond Return of Love (1961) …

This article reconsiders the relationship between identificatory and mimetic reading
practices—so often viewed as naive or mystified—and attention to intertextuality, which has …

What can critical animal studies learn by temporarily directing attention away from
representations of nonhuman animals in literature? Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go and …

This essay explores the interpersonal relationships of the clones in Ishiguro's sixth novel,
with a particular focus on the role that love has to play in creating ontological subjects …

Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go (2005) exemplifies the contemporary Anglophone novel's
inheritance of the Victorian novel. Specifically, it reworks this historical genre's thematization …

Abstract For Rosi Braidotti (European Educational Research Journal 12: 1–19, 2013),
posthuman condition refers to how the world today is faced with complex, multiple …

Deleuze and Guattari's concept of the body without organs (BwO) is one of their most
abstruse, yet it remains integral to their larger project of experimentation. While the BwO has …

Exploring what can be learnt when literary critics in the field of animal studies temporarily
direct attention away from representations of nonhuman animals in literature and towards …

One notable aspect of Kazou Ishiguro's writings is his fascinating ability to weave together a
narrative that is both poignant and sincere. His nuanced portrayal of human psychology …

This thesis examines the question of posthuman embodiment and condition in William
Gibson's Neuromancer and Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go, two seminal works in …