Social Critique and Reader Response Criticism In Kazuo Ishiguro's "When We Were Orphans"

by Anna Klamann

Essay from the year 2014 in the subject Didactics - English - Literature, Works, grade: 1,0, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, language: English, abstract: In Kazuo Ishiguro's "When We Were Orphans", the surfeit labelling of Christopher Banks as a Sherlock Holmes evokes reader expectations of the Holmesian genre and lets the reader judge Banks and his methods more critically in the light of Holmes. The novel though defies reader expectations in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3668576718
• ISBN13: 9783668576711
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: Grin Verlag
• Length: 20 Pages
• Weight: 0.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.0" x 7.0" x 10.0"