Research Article

THE QUASI-LEGEND OF KING ARTHUR BURIED UNDER CORRUPTED LANDS: HISTORICIZATION OF ARTHURIAN LEGEND IN KAZUO ISHIGURO’S THE BURIED GIANT

Volume: 8 Number: 2 October 30, 2021
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THE QUASI-LEGEND OF KING ARTHUR BURIED UNDER CORRUPTED LANDS: HISTORICIZATION OF ARTHURIAN LEGEND IN KAZUO ISHIGURO’S THE BURIED GIANT

Abstract

Kazuo Ishiguro (1954), the Nobel Laureate author, setting his novel The Buried Giant in Arthurian Britain, thoroughly analyzed prominent points of memory, trauma, forgetfulness, and chivalric code by way of narrating the interesting detours of Axl and Beatrice in a story of loss, death, regret, and love. In a strange forgetfulness, which causes villagers to forget their distant and recent past, the buried story about Arthurian chivalry manifests itself on every page by raising questions on the concepts of loyalty, honour, and courage. Ishiguro tells the story of the old couple, Axl and Beatrice, who perseveringly want to find their son, crumbs of information about who would bring out the painful consequences of having an illegitimate baby. He also rewrites the Arthurian legend from a contemporary perspective by making use of elements related to the concepts of memory and trauma. The aim of this study is to analyze the concepts of loss, death, memory, trauma, remembering, and forgetting under the basic points of postmodern narrative strategies such as historiographic metafiction to show the determinant factors on the historicization of King Arthur in an evolutionary story of Kazuo Ishiguro in a 21st- century perspective.

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Primary Language

English

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Journal Section

Research Article

Publication Date

October 30, 2021

Submission Date

November 20, 2020

Acceptance Date

May 20, 2021

Published in Issue

Year 2021 Volume: 8 Number: 2

APA
Avcu, İ. (2021). THE QUASI-LEGEND OF KING ARTHUR BURIED UNDER CORRUPTED LANDS: HISTORICIZATION OF ARTHURIAN LEGEND IN KAZUO ISHIGURO’S THE BURIED GIANT. Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi, 8(2), 127-149. https://izlik.org/JA55XG34HS
AMA
1.Avcu İ. THE QUASI-LEGEND OF KING ARTHUR BURIED UNDER CORRUPTED LANDS: HISTORICIZATION OF ARTHURIAN LEGEND IN KAZUO ISHIGURO’S THE BURIED GIANT. Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi. 2021;8(2):127-149. https://izlik.org/JA55XG34HS
Chicago
Avcu, İsmail. 2021. “THE QUASI-LEGEND OF KING ARTHUR BURIED UNDER CORRUPTED LANDS: HISTORICIZATION OF ARTHURIAN LEGEND IN KAZUO ISHIGURO’S THE BURIED GIANT”. Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi 8 (2): 127-49. https://izlik.org/JA55XG34HS.
EndNote
Avcu İ (October 1, 2021) THE QUASI-LEGEND OF KING ARTHUR BURIED UNDER CORRUPTED LANDS: HISTORICIZATION OF ARTHURIAN LEGEND IN KAZUO ISHIGURO’S THE BURIED GIANT. Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi 8 2 127–149.
IEEE
[1]İ. Avcu, “THE QUASI-LEGEND OF KING ARTHUR BURIED UNDER CORRUPTED LANDS: HISTORICIZATION OF ARTHURIAN LEGEND IN KAZUO ISHIGURO’S THE BURIED GIANT”, Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 127–149, Oct. 2021, [Online]. Available: https://izlik.org/JA55XG34HS
ISNAD
Avcu, İsmail. “THE QUASI-LEGEND OF KING ARTHUR BURIED UNDER CORRUPTED LANDS: HISTORICIZATION OF ARTHURIAN LEGEND IN KAZUO ISHIGURO’S THE BURIED GIANT”. Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi 8/2 (October 1, 2021): 127-149. https://izlik.org/JA55XG34HS.
JAMA
1.Avcu İ. THE QUASI-LEGEND OF KING ARTHUR BURIED UNDER CORRUPTED LANDS: HISTORICIZATION OF ARTHURIAN LEGEND IN KAZUO ISHIGURO’S THE BURIED GIANT. Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi. 2021;8:127–149.
MLA
Avcu, İsmail. “THE QUASI-LEGEND OF KING ARTHUR BURIED UNDER CORRUPTED LANDS: HISTORICIZATION OF ARTHURIAN LEGEND IN KAZUO ISHIGURO’S THE BURIED GIANT”. Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi, vol. 8, no. 2, Oct. 2021, pp. 127-49, https://izlik.org/JA55XG34HS.
Vancouver
1.İsmail Avcu. THE QUASI-LEGEND OF KING ARTHUR BURIED UNDER CORRUPTED LANDS: HISTORICIZATION OF ARTHURIAN LEGEND IN KAZUO ISHIGURO’S THE BURIED GIANT. Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi [Internet]. 2021 Oct. 1;8(2):127-49. Available from: https://izlik.org/JA55XG34HS