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Abstract

Kazuo Ishiguro is a famous Japanese-born English novelist in 20th century. He is
regarded as one of the Three Migrant Giants in British literature, along with the other
two ——Salman Rushdie and . He shows special understanding on
literature and art. All his novels have different styles. The subjects of his novels
include the noble family in Europe, the modern China, Japan, and biotechnology
experiment in the late 1990s in England.
Kazuo Ishiguro is not a productive writer and until now he has only published six
novels, but all of them have received great concerns from readers and critics, in which
The Remains of the Day is the most famous one. The Remains of the Day wins him
Booker Prize Winner of 1989 and was listed on the Publishers Weekly as one of the
best sellers.
The artistic features of The Remains of the Day have attracted more and more
attention from the readers and critics. Among the artistic features, the unreliable
narration is the most prominent one. There are a few studies on The Remains of the
Day, but people haven’t studied the theme from the angle of unreliable narration.
This thesis explores the unreliability of Stevens’s narration in The Remains of the Day
by adopting Wayne Booth and James Phelan’s theory on the unreliable to reveal the
rhetorical effects of such narration on the ethical positioning of the implied author, the
implied reader and the narrator himself.
The body of this thesis is divided into four chapters. In the part of Introduction,
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