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The Elephant Vanishes

Author	: Haruki Murakami
Publisher	: Random House
Release Date	: 2011-10-10
ISBN	: 1448103711
Pages	: 336 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book The Elephant Vanishes written by Haruki Murakami and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-10-10 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dizzying short story collection that displays Murakami's genius for uncovering the surreal in the everyday, the extraordinary within the ordinary *Featuring the story ‘Barn Burning’, the inspiration behind the Palme d’Or nominated film Burning* When a man's favourite elephant vanishes, the balance of his whole life is subtly upset. A couple's midnight hunger pangs drive them to hold up a McDonald's. A woman finds she is irresistible to a small green monster that burrows through her front garden. An insomniac wife wakes up in a twilight world of semi-consciousness in which anything seems possible - even death. In every one of these stories Murakami makes a determined assault on the normal.

A Study Guide for Haruki Murakami's "The Elephant Vanishes"

Author	: Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher	: Gale, Cengage Learning
Release Date	: 2016
ISBN	: 1410345084
Pages	: 27 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book A Study Guide for Haruki Murakami's "The Elephant Vanishes" written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on 2016 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Study Guide for Haruki Murakami's "The Elephant Vanishes," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.

Literary Afterlife of Raymond Carver

Author	: Pountney Jonathan Pountney
Publisher	: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date	: 2020-04-15
ISBN	: 1474455530
Pages	: 216 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Literary Afterlife of Raymond Carver written by Pountney Jonathan Pountney and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-15 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first major book-length study of Carver's cultural influenceThe first major book-length study of Carver's cultural influenceExplores Carver's relationships with other contemporary and popular writers and artistsStudies the relationship between the rise of American neoliberalism and Carver's writingThe Literary Afterlife of Raymond Carver examines the cultural legacy of one of America's most renowned short story writers. Pountney contextualises Carver's legacy amongst contemporary debates about authenticity and craftsmanship in the neoliberal era, drawing new socioeconomic connections between Carver's work and American neoliberalism. This study presents new explorations of Carver's relationships with other contemporary writers, filmmakers and artists such as Murakami and Irritu, shedding fresh light on Carver's influence.

Existence, Historical Fabulation, Destiny

Author	: Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
Publisher	: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date	: 2009-06-18
ISBN	: 1402098022
Pages	: 456 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Existence, Historical Fabulation, Destiny written by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-06-18 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surging from the ontopoietic vital timing of life, human self-consciousness prompts the innermost desire to rise above its brute facts. Imaginatio creatrix inspires us to fabulate these facts into events and plots with personal significance attempting to delineate a life-course in life-stories within the ever-flowing stream – existence. Seeking their deep motivations, causes and concatenations, we fabulate relatively stabilized networks of interconnecting meaning – history. But to understand the meaning and sense of these networks’ reconfigurations call for the purpose and telos of our endless undertaking; they remain always incomplete, carried onwards with the current of life, while fluctuating with personal experience in the play of memory. Facts and life stories, subjective desires and propensities, the circumambient world in its historical moves, creative logos and mythos, personal freedom and inward stirrings thrown in an enigmatic interplay, prompt our imperative thirst for the meaning of this course, its purpose and its fulfillment – the sense of it all. To disentangle all this animates the passions of the literary genius. The focus of this collection is to isolate the main arteries running through the intermingled forces prompting our quest to endow life with meaning. Papers by: Jadwiga Smith, Lawrence Kimmel, Alira Ashvo-Munoz, William D. Melaney, Imafedia Okhamafe, Michel Dion, Franck Dalmas, Ludmila Molodkina, Victor Gerald Rivas, Rebecca M. Painter, Matti Itkonen, Raymond J. Wilson III, Christopher S. Schreiner, Bruce Ross, Bernadette Prochaska, Tsung-I Dow, Jerre Collins, Cezary Jozef Olbromski, Victor Kocay, Roberto Verolini.

Postmodernity and Cross-culturalism

Author	: Yoshinobu Hakutani
Publisher	: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Release Date	: 2002
ISBN	: 9780838639085
Pages	: 230 pages
Rating	: 4.6/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Postmodernity and Cross-culturalism written by Yoshinobu Hakutani and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whereas the text of modernity thrived on its rhythms, symbols, and representations of beauty, and above all on its impersonality, postmodernity in the late decades of the twentieth century sought relationships outside the text - those between literature and history, philosophy, psychology, society, and culture. The exploration of such relationships is literary to postmodernity as it is ancillary to modernity."--BOOK JACKET.

Haruki Murakami and His Early Work

Author	: Masaki Mori
Publisher	: Lexington Books
Release Date	: 2021-02-11
ISBN	: 1793635986
Pages	: 135 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Haruki Murakami and His Early Work written by Masaki Mori and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2021-02-11 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Haruki Murakami and His Early Work first discusses Murakami Haruki’s real-life activities and interests, such as his self-identity as a Japanese novelist, his position in the Japanese literary canon, music, translation and running. In this context, three short stories as pivotal to his early writing career are examined, including “The Second Bakery Attack,” “The Elephant Vanishes,” and “TV People.” Written in an easy style to read, and with the content full of references to select contemporary popular culture and consumer products, his fiction in general tends to invite criticism of irrelevance and frivolity. Against their nonsensical, even humorous appearance, however, the book’s close analysis reveals his persistent concern with the plight of today’s humanity in postindustrial reality. Through the bewildering stories, Murakami delivers a covert critique of aspects of the sociopolitical system, including unbridled consumerism, relentless pursuit of efficiency, and electronic media saturation, that brings people into total submission without their realization of the plight in which they are placed. In this respect, these short stories rival his acclaimed novels while showing his essential concerns and literary creativity more succinctly.

The Trash Phenomenon

Author	: Stacey Michele Olster
Publisher	: University of Georgia Press
Release Date	: 2003
ISBN	: 9780820325217
Pages	: 316 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book The Trash Phenomenon written by Stacey Michele Olster and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Trash Phenomenon looks at how writers of the late twentieth century not only have integrated the events, artifacts, and theories of popular culture into their works but also have used those works as windows into popular culture's role in the process of nation building. Taking her cue from Donald Barthelme's 1967 portrayal of popular culture as "trash" and Don DeLillo's 1997 description of it as a subversive "people's history," Stacey Olster explores how literature recycles American popular culture so as to change the nationalistic imperative behind its inception. The Trash Phenomenon begins with a look at the mass media's role in the United States' emergence as the twentieth century's dominant power. Olster discusses the works of three authors who collectively span the century bounded by the Spanish-American War (1898) and the Persian Gulf War (1991): Gore Vidal's American Chronicle series, John Updike's Rabbit tetralogy, and Larry Beinhart's American Hero. Olster then turns her attention to three non-American writers whose works explore the imperial sway of American popular culture on their nation's value systems: hierarchical class structure in Dennis Potter's England, Peronism in Manuel Puig's Argentina, and Nihonjinron consensus in Haruki Murakami's Japan. Finally, Olster returns to American literature to look at the contemporary media spectacle and the representative figure as potential sources of national consolidation after November 1963. Olster first focuses on autobiographical, historical, and fictional accounts of three spectacles in which the formulae of popular culture are shown to bypass differences of class, gender, and race: the John F. Kennedy assassination, the Scarsdale Diet Doctor murder, and the O. J. Simpson trial. She concludes with some thoughts about the nature of American consolidation after 9/11.

America's Japan and Japan's Performing Arts

Author	: Barbara E. Thornbury
Publisher	: University of Michigan Press
Release Date	: 2013-04-15
ISBN	: 0472029282
Pages	: 274 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book America's Japan and Japan's Performing Arts written by Barbara E. Thornbury and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America’s Japan and Japan’s Performing Arts studies the images and myths that have shaped the reception of Japan-related theater, music, and dance in the United States since the 1950s. Soon after World War II, visits by Japanese performing artists to the United States emerged as a significant category of American cultural-exchange initiatives aimed at helping establish and build friendly ties with Japan. Barbara E. Thornbury explores how “Japan” and “Japanese culture” have been constructed, reconstructed, and transformed in response to the hundreds of productions that have taken place over the past sixty years in New York, the main entry point and defining cultural nexus in the United States for the global touring market in the performing arts. The author’s transdisciplinary approach makes the book appealing to those in the performing arts studies, Japanese studies, and cultural studies.

Complicite, Theatre and Aesthetics

Author	: Tomasz Wiśniewski
Publisher	: Springer
Release Date	: 2016-10-27
ISBN	: 3319334433
Pages	: 246 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (193 download)

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Download or read book Complicite, Theatre and Aesthetics written by Tomasz Wiśniewski and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-10-27 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a pioneering critical study of Complicite’s work throughout the years. Drawing on an extensive overview of the available research material – including interviews, manuscripts and the company’s own archive – the book is framed within a clearly defined research perspective and explores the singularity of theatre communication. The book results from an encounter between the London-based – but cosmopolitan in scope – company, and a fresh application of the form-oriented scholarship of Eastern Europe, Yuri Lotman’s semiosphere in particular. Focused on the aesthetics of Complicite, this study achieves a critical distance and undertakes multidimensional scrutiny of the available research material. By identifying the principles of Complicite’s aesthetics, the book attempts to grasp the company’s artistic paradigm. It focuses on ways of creating, preserving, and decoding meanings, rather than on the nuances of performance or contextual issues.

Japan at Nature's Edge

Author	: Ian Jared Miller
Publisher	: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date	: 2013-07-01
ISBN	: 0824838777
Pages	: 338 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Japan at Nature's Edge written by Ian Jared Miller and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japan at Nature’s Edge is a timely collection of essays that explores the relationship between Japan’s history, culture, and physical environment. It greatly expands the focus of previous work on Japanese modernization by examining Japan’s role in global environmental transformation and how Japanese ideas have shaped bodies and landscapes over the centuries. The immediacy of Earth’s environmental crisis, a predicament highlighted by Japan’s March 2011 disaster, brings a sense of urgency to the study of Japan and its global connections. The work is an environmental history in the broadest sense of the term because it contains writing by environmental anthropologists, a legendary Japanese economist, and scholars of Japanese literature and culture. The editors have brought together an unparalleled assemblage of some of the finest scholars in the field who, rather than treat it in isolation or as a unique cultural community, seek to connect Japan to global environmental currents such as whaling, world fisheries, mountaineering and science, mining and industrial pollution, and relations with nonhuman animals. The contributors assert the importance of the environment in understanding Japan’s history and propose a new balance between nature and culture, one weighted much more heavily on the side of natural legacies. This approach does not discount culture. Instead, it suggests that the Japanese experience of nature, like that of all human beings, is a complex and intimate negotiation between the physical and cultural worlds. Contributors: Daniel P. Aldrich, Jakobina Arch, Andrew Bernstein, Philip C. Brown, Timothy S. George, Jeffrey E. Hanes, David L. Howell, Federico Marcon, Christine L. Marran, Ian Jared Miller, Micah Muscolino, Ken’ichi Miyamoto, Sara B. Pritchard, Julia Adeney Thomas, Karen Thornber, William M. Tsutsui, Brett L. Walker, Takehiro Watanabe.

Who We're Reading When We're Reading Murakami

Author	: David Karashima
Publisher	: Catapult
Release Date	: 2020-09-01
ISBN	: 1593765908
Pages	: 304 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (937 download)

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Download or read book Who We're Reading When We're Reading Murakami written by David Karashima and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did a loner destined for a niche domestic audience become one of the most famous writers alive? A "fascinating" look at the "business of bringing a best-selling novelist to a global audience" (The Atlantic)―and a “rigorous” exploration of the role of translators and editors in the creation of literary culture (The Paris Review). Thirty years ago, when Haruki Murakami’s works were first being translated, they were part of a series of pocket-size English-learning guides released only in Japan. Today his books can be read in fifty languages and have won prizes and sold millions of copies globally. How did a loner destined for a niche domestic audience become one of the most famous writers alive? This book tells one key part of the story. Its cast includes an expat trained in art history who never intended to become a translator; a Chinese American ex-academic who never planned to work as an editor; and other publishing professionals in New York, London, and Tokyo who together introduced a pop-inflected, unexpected Japanese voice to the wider literary world. David Karashima synthesizes research, correspondence, and interviews with dozens of individuals—including Murakami himself—to examine how countless behind-the-scenes choices over the course of many years worked to build an internationally celebrated author’s persona and oeuvre. His careful look inside the making of the “Murakami Industry" uncovers larger questions: What role do translators and editors play in framing their writers’ texts? What does it mean to translate and edit “for a market”? How does Japanese culture get packaged and exported for the West?

The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories

Author	: Theodore William Goossen
Publisher	: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date	: 2002
ISBN	: 0192803727
Pages	: 486 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories written by Theodore William Goossen and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of short stories, including many new translations, is the first to span the whole of Japan's modern era from the end of the nineteenth century to the present day. Beginning with the first writings to assimilate and rework Western literary traditions, through the flourishing of the short story genre in the cosmopolitan atmosphere of the Taisho era, to the new breed of writers produced under the constraints of literary censorship, and the current writings reflecting the pitfalls and paradoxes of modern life, this anthology offers a stimulating survey of the development of the Japanese short story. Various indigenous traditions, in addition to those drawn from the West, recur throughout the stories: stories of the self, of the Water Trade (Tokyo's nightlife of geishas and prostitutes), of social comment, love and obsession, legends and fairytales. This collection includes the work of two Nobel prize-winners: Kawabata and Oe, the talented women writers Hirabayashi, Euchi, Okamoto, and Hayashi, together with the acclaimed Tanizaki, Mishima, and Murakami. The introduction by Theodore Goossen gives insight into these exotic and enigmatic, sometimes disturbing stories, derived from the lyrical roots of Japanese literature with its distinctive stress on atmosphere and beauty.

A Study Guide for Haruki Murakami's "The Elephant Vanishes"

Author	: Cengage Learning Gale
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 2017-07-25
ISBN	: 9781375390774
Pages	: 40 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book A Study Guide for Haruki Murakami's "The Elephant Vanishes" written by Cengage Learning Gale and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-25 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Study Guide for Haruki Murakami's "The Elephant Vanishes," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.

The elephant vanishes

Author	:
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 2004
ISBN	:
Pages	: pages
Rating	: 4.:/5 (494 download)

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Download or read book The elephant vanishes written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

An Entertaining Tale of Quadrupeds

Author	:
Publisher	: Columbia University Press
Release Date	: 2003-07-18
ISBN	: 0231501994
Pages	: 578 pages
Rating	: 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book An Entertaining Tale of Quadrupeds written by and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2003-07-18 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Entertaining Tale of Quadrupeds is the first English verse translation of the Greek satirical poem Diegesis Paidiophrastos ton Zoon ton Tetrapodon. Written by an anonymous author in fourteenth-century Byzantium, this vernacular allegorical poem has long been recognized as a unique document, one that appears to have originated independently of comparable works in other traditions. A medieval Animal Farm, the story describes a convention of animals in which each beast vaunts its uses to humanity while denigrating others, resulting in a cataclysmic battle. The authors provide extensive textual analysis and notes on the form, style, and context of the poem.

The Routledge Course in Japanese Translation

Author	: Yoko Hasegawa
Publisher	: Routledge
Release Date	: 2013-05-13
ISBN	: 1136640886
Pages	: 370 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (366 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Course in Japanese Translation written by Yoko Hasegawa and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Course in Japanese Translation brings together for the first time material dedicated to the theory and practice of translation to and from Japanese. This one semester advanced course in Japanese translation is designed to raise awareness of the many considerations that must be taken into account when translating a text. As students progress through the course they will acquire various tools to deal with the common problems typically involved in the practice of translation. Particular attention is paid to the structural differences between Japanese and English and to cross-cultural dissimilarities in stylistics. Essential theory and information on the translation process are provided as well as abundant practical tasks. The Routledge Course in Japanese Translation is essential reading for all serious students of Japanese at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage: A Novel by Haruki Murakami (Trivia-on-Books)

Author	: Trivion Books
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 2016-09-08
ISBN	:
Pages	: 74 pages
Rating	: 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage: A Novel by Haruki Murakami (Trivia-on-Books) written by Trivion Books and published by . This book was released on 2016-09-08 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Play a little Trivia-on-Book: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami Tsukuru Tazaki has always been a fan of train stations. Back in the 1990s in his hometown of Nagoya, he would spend most of his time with four high school friends, all with "colorful names" leaving Tsukuru the “colorless” in the group. One day in 1995, his best friends suddenly cut all ties with him. Feeling abandoned and neglected, Tsukuru became depressed and suicidal. Sixteen years later, Tsukuru is now 36-years-old and works as a train station engineer and still unable to move on from his past. His girlfriend urges him to confront his past because she wants him to commit to their relationship. Tsukuru sets off on a journey to unravel his past and find the quest for truth, happiness, and acceptance. You may have read the book, but not have liked it. You may have liked the book, but not be a fan. You may call yourself a fan, but few truly are. Are you? Trivia-on-Books is an unofficial independently quiz-formatted trivia on the book for readers, students, and fans alike. Whether you're looking for new materials to the book or would like to take the challenge yourself and share it with your friends and family for a time of fun, Trivia-on-Books provides a unique approach that is both insightful and educational! Features You'll Find Inside: • 30 Multiple choice questions on the book, plots, characters and author • Insightful commentary to answer every question • Complementary quiz material for yourself or your reading group • Results provided with scores to determine "status" Promising quality and value, grab your copy of Trivia-on-Books!