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International Journal of New Developments in Engineering and Society, 2020, 4(2); doi: 10.25236/IJNDES.040201.

Interpretation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go from the Two Cultures Controversy

Author(s)

Liu Ya

Corresponding Author:
Liu Ya
Affiliation(s)

School of Chinese language and literature  Shandong Normal University, Shandong, Jinan, 250014, China

Abstract

The fiction Never Let Me Go, written by the Nobel literature laureate Kazuo Ishiguro, carries forward the English literature’s tradition of explicating the conflict between science-technology and humanity. It features the theme of clone, reflects the complexity of the identity of “human beings” in “post-human times” and criticizes the technological rationality.

Keywords

Kazuo ishiguro, Never let me go, Two cultures controversy

Cite This Paper

Liu Ya. Interpretation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go from the Two Cultures Controversy. International Journal of New Developments in Engineering and Society (2020) Vol.4, Issue 2: 1-6. https://doi.org/10.25236/IJNDES.040201.

References

[1] Kazuo Ishiguro (2005). Never Let Me Go. London: Faber and Faber Ltd.
[2] Matthew Arnold (2006). Culture and Anarchy. New York: Oxford University Press, pp.33-37.
[3] Snow ·C·P, Stefan, Collini (2012). The Two Cultures. Cambridge University Press.
[4] (Author’s Affiliation: School of Chinese Language and Literature of Shandong Normal University)