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The Critique of the Virtual Shifting Discrusive Space in ...

The Critique of the Virtual Shifting Discrusive Space in ...

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Michael Seats' Murakami Haruki (2006) covers most of the significant books and articles on Murakami in English: Matthew Strecher's Dances with Sheep: The Quest for Identity in the Fiction of Murakami Haruki (2002), Jay Rubin's Haruki ...
Haruki Murakami: Challenging Authors

Haruki Murakami: Challenging Authors

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Japanese writer Haruki Murakami has achieved incredible popularity in his native country and world-wide as well as rising critical acclaim.
1Q84: Books 1 and 2

1Q84: Books 1 and 2

Haruki Murakami

Haruki Murakami. is to this they owe their small stature. the puffiness of their faces. and a certain sluggishness and laziness of movement. "The poor Gilyaks!" Fuka-Eri said. Writers give varyingaccounts of the Gilyaks' character. but all agree on ...
Sputnik Sweetheart

Sputnik Sweetheart

Haruki Murakami

'Sputnik Sweetheart has touched me deeper and pushed me further than anything I've read in a long time' Julie Myerson, Guardian 'How does Murakami manage to make poetry while writing of contemporary life and emotions?
Postmodern, Feminist and Postcolonial Currents in ...

Postmodern, Feminist and Postcolonial Currents in ...

Fuminobu Murakami

Using the Euro-American theoretical framework of postmodernism, feminism and post-colonialism, this book analyses the fictional and critical work of four contemporary Japanese writers; Murakami Haruki, Yoshimoto Banana, Yoshimoto Takaaki ...
Dance Dance Dance

Dance Dance Dance

Haruki Murakami

Reading Dance Dance Dance is a bit like being taken blindfold on a joy-ride' Independent 'Murakami reveals throughout, along with turn-on-a-sixpence plotting and joyous satirical energy, a old-fashioned interest in creating a corps of ...
Underground

Underground

Haruki Murakami

Described as a work of "journalistic literature,"[1] Underground was originally published as a series of separate interviews Murakami conducted with 60 victims of the attacks and descriptions of how the attacks were carried out, along with ...
Haruki Murakami

Haruki Murakami

Mark Mussari

Profiles the life and career of the award-winning Japanese author famous for works of both fiction and nonfiction.
After Dark

After Dark

Haruki Murakami

“In this world, there are things you can only do alone, and things you can only do with somebody else. It's important to combine the two in just the right amount”
After Dark

After Dark

Haruki Murakami

Strange nocturnal happenings, or a trick of the night? 'Stylish and enigmatic' Economist 'The novel could be an allegory of sleep, a phenomenology of time, or a cinematic metafiction.
1Q84:

1Q84:

Haruki Murakami

Book Two of 1Q84 ended with Aomame standing on the Metropolitan Expressway with a gun between her lips.
Kafka On The Shore

Kafka On The Shore

Haruki Murakami

Kafka Tamura runs away from home at fifteen, under the shadow of his father's dark prophesy.
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle

The Wind-up Bird Chronicle

Haruki Murakami

A man named Toru Okada is searching the Tokyo suburbs for his wife's runaway cat, but soon finds himself searching for his missing wife as well.
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Haruki Murakami

By turns funny and sobering, playful and philosophical, this is a must-read for fans of this masterful yet private writer as well as for the exploding population of athletes who find similar satisfaction in distance running.
On the Borders of Convention

On the Borders of Convention

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Eds. Sandra Lee Kleppe and Robert Miltner. Columbia: the University of South Carolina Press, 2008. Rubin, Jay. Haruki Murakami and the Music of Words. London: Vintage, 2005. Saltzman, Arthur M. Understanding Raymond Carver.
Novel 11

Novel 11

Dag Solstad

I think that’s serious literature'' Haruki Murakami ‘An utterly hypnotic and utterly humane writer’ James Wood ''Without question Norway''s bravest, most intelligent novelist'' Per Petterson ''Dag Solstad serves up another helping of his ...
The Journal of Japanese Studies

The Journal of Japanese Studies

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By Michael Seats. Lexington Books, Lanham, Md., 2006. xviii, 364 pages. $70.00. Reviewed by Matthew C. Strecher Winona State University As the so-called " Murakami Haruki Phenomenon" continues to grow, with new translations of the ...
Murakami Haruki: The Simulacrum in Contemporary Japanese Culture

Murakami Haruki: The Simulacrum in Contemporary Japanese Culture

Michael Seats

Members of the Japanese Studies Department at Murdoch University, including Radha Krishnan, Takeshi Moriyama and Sandra Wilson, offered great encouragement and support. Thanks also to Yoko Imai and Shigeki Nomoto for their ...
Monumenta Nipponica;: Studies on Japanese Culture, Past and ...

Monumenta Nipponica;: Studies on Japanese Culture, Past and ...

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By Fuminobu Murakami. Van Gorcum, Assen, Netherlands, 1996. x + 134 pages. DGL 45.00. RICHARD TORRANCE Ohio State University FUMINOBU MURAKAMI'S book is an ambitious experiment that attempts to analyze modern Japanese ...
Smart Materials for Drug Delivery

Smart Materials for Drug Delivery

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61. 62. 63 Y. Tono, C. Kojima, Y. Haba, T. Takahashi, A. Harada, S. Yagi and K. Kono, Langmuir, 2006, 22, 4920. K. Kono, T. Miyoshi, Y. Haba, E. Murakami, C. Kojima and A. Harada, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2007, 129, 7222. K. Kono, E. Murakami, ...
Hut of Fallen Persimmons

Hut of Fallen Persimmons

Adriana Lisboa

"A journey to Japan seen through the eyes of two Brazilians: Haruki and Celina.
The Korean War: An International History

The Korean War: An International History

Wada Haruki

... and the People by Aminda M. Smith Japan's New Middle Class, Third Edition by Ezra F. Vogel with a chapter by Suzanne Hall Vogel, foreword by William W. Kelly The Japanese Family in Transition: From the Professional Housewife Ideal to ...
Therapeutic Nuclear Medicine

Therapeutic Nuclear Medicine

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... Morita Y, Murakami K, Nagamatu M, Nartallo R, Nieminen P, Nishimura T, Ohtsubo K, Okamura M, O'Neale S, Oohata Y, Paech K, Perl J, Pfeiffer A, Pia MG, Ranjard F, Rybin A, Sadilov S, Di Salvo E, Santin G, Sasaki T, Savvas N, Sawada Y, ...
The Strong and the Weak in Japanese Literature: ...

The Strong and the Weak in Japanese Literature: ...

Fuminobu Murakami

The partialEnglish translationwas published in 1996inJapanese Journalof Religious Studies,23 (3–4): 233–69, 353–86, trans. JamesC.Dobbins and Fabio Rambelli, entitled “The Development of theKenmitsu System as Japan's Medieval  ...
Routledge Handbook of Modern Japanese Literature

Routledge Handbook of Modern Japanese Literature

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Heather BowenStruyk argues that through this turn Kawabata's protagonist constructs a fantasy space that elides the 'probable economic and gender subordination suffered' by the women represented (1999: 148). Fuminobu Murakami (2010: ...
The Kojiki: An Account of Ancient Matters

The Kojiki: An Account of Ancient Matters

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Fuminobu, Murakami. “Incest and Rebirth in Kojiki.” Monumenta Nipponica 43, no. 4 (1988): 455–63. Grayson, James H. “Susa-no-o: A Culture Hero from Korea. ” Japan Forum 14, no. 3 (2002): 465–88. Isomae Jun'ichi. Japanese Mythology: ...
Boundary Integral Equations in Elasticity Theory

Boundary Integral Equations in Elasticity Theory

A.M. Linkov

88-92. Mogilevskaya S. G., Rothenburg L., Dusseault M. B. [1] Interaction between a circular opening and fractures ... 247-970. Murakami Y [1] Stress Intensity Factors Handbook, Oxford-New York: Pergamon Press, 1990, v. 1, 2. ... Rice J. [1] Mathematical methods in the mechanics of fracture // Fracture / H. Liebowitz (ed).
Arts and Cultural Leadership in Asia

Arts and Cultural Leadership in Asia

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... Urban Change in Asia Edited by Peter J.M. Nas Education Reform and Education Policy in East Asia Ka Ho Mok The Strong and the Weak in Japanese Literature Discrimination, egalitarianism, nationalism Fuminobu Murakami Civilization, ...

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