A Rhetorical Approach to Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day
A Rhetorical Approach to Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day

Summary/Abstract: As already demonstrated by previous research, Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day does not stand on an ineffable love. Since the novel has transgressed literary inquiries and provided a case study for research on ethical conduct in public service, international relations, politics, social psychology, historiography and many other social domains, Stevens’ situation, and particularly his “rhetorical situation” seem designed to invite further thinking. By departing from the novel fragments narrating the course of the 1923 Conference, from the butler’s objective witnessing to various speeches delivered by Lord Darlington’s guests and from a rhetorical theory of situatedness, the present essay proposes a rhetorical approach to Ishiguro’s novel.

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