Liu, [Jane] Qian (2016) Parody and irony : cavalier literature in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant. Contemporary Foreign Literature (3). pp. 83-91. ISSN 1001-1757.

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Abstract

Parody is one of the most crucial techniques of postmodernist writing. Kazuo Ishiguro parodies cavalier literature in his new novel The Buried Giant and by absorbing, adapting and transforming this canonical genre, achieves an ironic effect. Among works of cavalier literature, Ishiguro most remarkably parodies the fourteenth century British poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Ishiguro’s Sir Gawain, though honest and chivalrous as the young knight in the original, turns into an old man to investigate universal issues such as old age, death, oblivion and love. This article studies the intertextuality between The Buried Giant and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight to explore the novelist’s ironic intentions and thematic concerns.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Alternative Title:	Xifang shoufa yu fanfeng yitu: Shihei Yixiong Bei maizang de juren dui qishi wenxue de jieyong” 戏仿手法与反讽意图——石黑一雄《被埋葬的巨人》对骑士文学的借用
Divisions:	Faculty of Arts > School of Modern Languages and Cultures
Journal or Publication Title:	Contemporary Foreign Literature
Publisher:	Institute of Foreign Literature, Nanjing University
ISSN:	1001-1757
Official Date:	2016
Dates:	Date Event 2016 Published
Number:	3
Page Range:	pp. 83-91
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Access rights to Published version:	Restricted or Subscription Access

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