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Kafka on the Shore

Author : Haruki Murakami
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1400079276
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kafka on the Shore written by Haruki Murakami and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2006-01-03 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the New York Times bestselling author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and one of the world’s greatest storytellers comes "an insistently metaphysical mind-bender” (The New Yorker) about a teenager on the run and an aging simpleton. Here we meet 15-year-old runaway Kafka Tamura and the elderly Nakata, who is drawn to Kafka for reasons that he cannot fathom. As their paths converge, acclaimed author Haruki Murakami enfolds readers in a world where cats talk, fish fall from the sky, and spirits slip out of their bodies to make love or commit murder, in what is a truly remarkable journey. “As powerful as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.... Reading Murakami ... is a striking experience in consciousness expansion.” —The Chicago Tribune

Kafka on the Shore

Author : Haruki Murakami
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 144810369X
Total Pages : 59 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book Kafka on the Shore written by Haruki Murakami and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-10-10 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kafka Tamura runs away from home at fifteen, under the shadow of his father's dark prophesy. The aging Nakata, tracker of lost cats, who never recovered from a bizarre childhood affliction, finds his pleasantly simplified life suddenly turned upside down. As their parallel odysseys unravel, cats converse with people; fish tumble from the sky; a ghost-like pimp deploys a Hegel-spouting girl of the night; a forest harbours soldiers apparently un-aged since World War II. There is a savage killing, but the identity of both victim and killer is a riddle - one of many which combine to create an elegant and dreamlike masterpiece. *Murakami's new book Novelist as a Vocation is available now* 'Wonderful... Magical and outlandish' Daily Mail 'Hypnotic, spellbinding' The Times 'Cool, fluent and addictive' Daily Telegraph

Haruki Murakami and the Search for Self-Therapy

Author : Jonathan Dil
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350270563
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Haruki Murakami and the Search for Self-Therapy written by Jonathan Dil and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02-24 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Haruki Murakami, a global literary phenomenon, has said that he started writing fiction as a means of self-therapy. What he has not discussed as much is what he needed self-therapy for. This book argues that by understanding more about why Murakami writes, and by linking this with the question of how he writes, readers can better understand what he writes. Murakami's fiction, in other words, can be read as a search for self-therapy. In five chapters which explore Murakami's fourteen novels to date, this book argues that there are four prominent therapeutic threads woven through Murakami's fiction that can be traced back to his personal traumas - most notably Murakami's falling out with his late father and the death of a former girlfriend – and which have also transcended them in significant ways as they have been transformed into literary fiction. The first thread looks at the way melancholia must be worked through for mourning to occur and healing to happen; the second thread looks at how symbolic acts of sacrifice can help to heal intergenerational trauma; the third thread looks at the way people with avoidant attachment styles can begin to open themselves up to love again; the fourth thread looks at how individuation can manifest as a response to nihilism. Meticulously researched and written with sensitivity, the result is a sophisticated exploration of Murakami's published novels as an evolving therapeutic project that will be of great value to all scholars of Japanese literature and culture.

Literature of the Global Age

Author : Maurizio Ascari
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786485353
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Literature of the Global Age written by Maurizio Ascari and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an age of world citizenship, literary scholarship is focusing increasingly on texts which communicate effectively over cultural lines. Advocating a planetary approach to contemporary literature, this critical text examines eight novels from eight cultures. The writers discussed are Julian Barnes, Magda Szabo, Abraham B. Yehoshua, Ian McEwan, W.G. Sebald, Murakami Haruki, Jonathan Safran Foer, and Azar Nafisi. Focusing on the authors’ encouragement to meditate on life’s most pressing issues, the essays here invite us to reevaluate postmodernism as a current category.

Oedipus at Colonus

Author : Andreas Markantonatos
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 9783110193268
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book Oedipus at Colonus written by Andreas Markantonatos and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2007 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation This is the first study of Sophocles Oedipus at Colonus which offers a lucid discussion of the main developments in the interpretative scholarship on the play, including among others an incisive analysis of its historical, social, mythical, intertextual, and performative contexts.

The Cultural Complex

Author : Thomas Singer
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9781583919132
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (191 download)

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Download or read book The Cultural Complex written by Thomas Singer and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on Jung's theory of complexes, this book offers a new perspective on conflicts between groups and cultures, demonstrating how the effects of cultural complexes can be felt in the behaviour of disenfranchised groups across the world.

Excess and Masculinity in Asian Cultural Productions

Author : Kwai-Cheung Lo
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438432100
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Excess and Masculinity in Asian Cultural Productions written by Kwai-Cheung Lo and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2010-08-04 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innovative analysis of the relationship of gender to East Asian economic development.

Cat

Author : Katharine M. Rogers
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 9781861892928
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (929 download)

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Download or read book Cat written by Katharine M. Rogers and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2006-12-27 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An entertaining look at the cat, one of the most popular pets in the world.

PROCEEDINGS OF NATIONAL SEMINAR ON MULTIDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AND PRACTICE VOLUME 2

Author : Dr. M. Kanika Priya
Publisher : JEC PUBLICATION
ISBN 13 : 9357499679
Total Pages : 1220 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (574 download)

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Download or read book PROCEEDINGS OF NATIONAL SEMINAR ON MULTIDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AND PRACTICE VOLUME 2 written by Dr. M. Kanika Priya and published by JEC PUBLICATION. This book was released on with total page 1220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Conference Proceedings of the National Seminar entitled “Multidisciplinary Research and Practice” compiled by Dr. M. Kanika Priya records various research papers written by eminent scholars, professors and students. The articles range from English literature to Tamil literature, Arts, Humanities, Social Science, Education, Performing Arts, Information and Communication Technology, Engineering, Technology and Science, Medicine and Pharmaceutical Research, Economics, Sociology, Philosophy, Business, Management, Commerce and Accounting, Teacher Education, Higher Education, Primary and Secondary Education, Law, Science (Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Zoology, Botany), Agriculture and Computer Science. Researchers and faculty members from various disciplines have contributed their research papers. This book contains articles in Three languages, namely: English, Tamil and Hindi. As a editor Dr. M. Kanika Priya has taken up the tedious job of checking the validity and correctness of the research work in bringing out this conference proceedings in a beautiful manner. In its present shape and size, this anthology will, hopefully, find a place on the library shelves and enlighten the academics all round the world.

Writing Journeys Across Cultural Borders

Author : Elena V. Shabliy
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1666900354
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book Writing Journeys Across Cultural Borders written by Elena V. Shabliy and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-10-13 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book identifies, through an interdisciplinary lens, literary works that treat the theme of the journey from multiple angles: religious, psychological, psychoanalytical, philosophical, educational, and historical.

Landscapes of Realism

Author : Dirk Göttsche
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027260362
Total Pages : 834 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Landscapes of Realism written by Dirk Göttsche and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few literary phenomena are as elusive and yet as persistent as realism. While it responds to the perennial impulse to use literature to reflect on experience, it also designates a specific set of literary and artistic practices that emerged in response to Western modernity. Landscapes of Realism is a two-volume collaborative interdisciplinary exploration of this vast territory, bringing together leading-edge new criticism on the realist paradigms that were first articulated in nineteenth-century Europe but have since gone on globally to transform the literary landscape. Tracing the manifold ways in which these paradigms are developed, discussed and contested across time, space, cultures and media, this first volume tackles in its five core essays and twenty-five case studies such questions as why realism emerged when it did, why and how it developed such a transformative dynamic across languages, to what extent realist poetics remain central to art and popular culture after 1900, and how generally to reassess realism from a twenty-first-century comparative perspective.

Shaping the Field of Translation In Japanese ↔ Turkish Contexts I

Author : Esin ESEN
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 3631789254
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (317 download)

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Download or read book Shaping the Field of Translation In Japanese ↔ Turkish Contexts I written by Esin ESEN and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2019-05-31 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The academic discipline of translation studies is only half a century old and even younger in the field of bilateral translation between Japanese and Turkish. This book is the first volume of the world’s first academic book on Turkish↔Japanese translation. While this volume gathered discussions on translation studies with theoric and applied aspects, literature, linguistics, and philosophy, the second volume deals with the history of translation, philosophy, culture education, language education, and law. It also covers the translation of historical materials and divan poetry. These books will be the first steps to discuss and develop various aspects of the field. Such compilation brings together experienced and young Turkology and Japanology scholars as well as academics linked to translation studies and translation, and also translators. Both volumes contain 24 essays written by twenty-two writers from Japan, Turkey, USA and China. Introduction by Judy WAKABAYASHI, Special notes by Turgay KURULTAY, Esin ESEN, Ryō MIYASHITA, Devrim Çetin GÜVEN, İbrahim Soner ÖZDEMİR, Keichirō ISHII, Nuray AKDEMİR, Ruosheng Sun, Ayşegül ATAY, Ayşe AĞRIŞ

Before Identity

Author : Richard F. Calichman
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438482159
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Before Identity written by Richard F. Calichman and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2021-02-01 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before Identity represents the first attempt to provide a comprehensive examination of the methodological ground of Japan studies. At its most basic level, the field presupposes the immediate empirical existence of an entity known as the "Japanese people" or "Japanese culture," from which it then carves out its various objects of inquiry. Richard F. Calichman attempts to show that this presupposition is itself ineluctably bound up with modern forms of knowledge formation, thereby enlarging the scope of what is meant by modernity. In this way, he aims to bring about a heightened level of theoretical-critical vigilance in the field. Calichman explores the methodological commitments implied or expressed in the work of a range of writers and scholars—Murakami Haruki, Komori Yōichi, Harry Harootunian, Tomi Suzuki, Alan Tansman, and Dennis Washburn—and how such commitments have shaped and limited the field. If theoretical issues in Japan studies are not subjected to this sort of in-depth scrutiny, Calichman argues, then the field will continue to remain ghettoized relative to other disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, which have typically been more receptive to conceptual discourse. By showing that scholarly inquiry must begin not at the level of the object but rather at the more fundamental level of methodology, Calichman aims to introduce a greater degree of theoretical rigor to the discipline of Japan studies as a whole.

Haruki Murakami

Author : Chikako Nihei
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000021181
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Haruki Murakami written by Chikako Nihei and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-03 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Haruki Murakami: Storytelling and Productive Distance studies the evolution of the monogatari, or narrative and storytelling in the works of Haruki Murakami. Author Chikako Nihei argues that Murakami’s power of monogatari lies in his use of distancing effects; storytelling allows individuals to "cross" into a different context, through which they can effectively observe themselves and reality. His belief in the importance of monogatari is closely linked to his generation’s experience of the counter-‐‐culture movement in the late1960s and his research on the 1995 Tokyo Sarin Gas Attack caused by the Aum shinrikyo cult, major events in postwar Japan that revealed many people’s desire for a stable narrative to interact with and form their identity from.

Haruki Murakami

Author : Mark Mussari
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish
ISBN 13 : 9780761441243
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (412 download)

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Download or read book Haruki Murakami written by Mark Mussari and published by Marshall Cavendish. This book was released on 2011 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers of the books in Todays Writers and Their Works will learn the story behind each writers story.

海辺のカフカ

Author : 村上春樹
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9784864072892
Total Pages : 615 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (728 download)

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Download or read book 海辺のカフカ written by 村上春樹 and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 615 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Spirit Matters

Author : Philip Gabriel
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824864433
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Spirit Matters written by Philip Gabriel and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2006-02-28 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spirit Matters is a ground-breaking work, the first to explore a broad range of writings on spirituality in contemporary Japanese literature. It draws on a variety of literary works, from enormously popular fiction (Miura Ayako’s Hyôten and Shirokari Pass and the novels of Murakami Haruki) to more problematic "serious" fiction (Ôe Kenzaburô’s Somersault) to nonfiction meditations on martyrdom and miracles (Sono Ayako’s Kiseki) and the dynamics of religious cults (Murakami’s interviews with members of Aum Shinrikyô in Underground). The first half of the volume focuses on the work of two women Christian writers, Miura Ayako and Sono Ayako. Combining a decidedly evangelistic bent with the formulas of the popular novel, Miura’s 1964 novel Hyôten (Freezing Point) and its sequel are entertaining perennial bestsellers but also treat spiritual issues—like original sin—that are largely unexplored in modern Japanese literature. Sono’s Kiseki (Miracles) and Miura’s Shiokari Pass focus on the meaning of self-sacrifice and the miraculous and survey both the paths by which people come to faith and the spiritual doubts that assail them. Perhaps most striking for Western readers, Gabriel reveals how Miura’s novel shows the lingering resistance to Christianity and its oppositional nature in Japan, and how in Kiseki Sono considers the kind of spiritual struggles many Japanese Christians experience as they try to reconcile their belief in a minority faith.