No-place and urban space in Haruki Murakami’s novels
Haruki Murakami's works are widely read by modern-day readers situated in dense urban spaces. Looking at urban spaces in new perspectives through the lens of psychogeography, this paper serves to explore the rediscovery of not only the urban spaces, but also its relations to the individuals sit...
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| author | Hoe, Siang Yee |
| author2 | Graham John Matthews |
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| description | Haruki Murakami's works are widely read by modern-day readers situated in dense urban spaces. Looking at urban spaces in new perspectives through the lens of psychogeography, this paper serves to explore the rediscovery of not only the urban spaces, but also its relations to the individuals situated within them. This will be done through the literary criticism of representations in Murakami's novels, namely Norwegian Wood, Sputnik Sweetheart and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World. Overlooking the ambiguity of translation, the paper argues for a sensitivity towards these urban spaces and the location of contemporary selves within and in response to them, especially in an ever-changing urban landscape. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/739402019-12-10T13:11:52Z No-place and urban space in Haruki Murakami’s novels Hoe, Siang Yee Graham John Matthews School of Humanities and Social Sciences DRNTU::Humanities Haruki Murakami's works are widely read by modern-day readers situated in dense urban spaces. Looking at urban spaces in new perspectives through the lens of psychogeography, this paper serves to explore the rediscovery of not only the urban spaces, but also its relations to the individuals situated within them. This will be done through the literary criticism of representations in Murakami's novels, namely Norwegian Wood, Sputnik Sweetheart and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World. Overlooking the ambiguity of translation, the paper argues for a sensitivity towards these urban spaces and the location of contemporary selves within and in response to them, especially in an ever-changing urban landscape. Bachelor of Arts 2018-04-20T02:13:26Z 2018-04-20T02:13:26Z 2018 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/73940 en Nanyang Technological University 36 p. application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | DRNTU::Humanities Hoe, Siang Yee No-place and urban space in Haruki Murakami’s novels |
| title | No-place and urban space in Haruki Murakami’s novels |
| title_full | No-place and urban space in Haruki Murakami’s novels |
| title_fullStr | No-place and urban space in Haruki Murakami’s novels |
| title_full_unstemmed | No-place and urban space in Haruki Murakami’s novels |
| title_short | No-place and urban space in Haruki Murakami’s novels |
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