Michael Robert Seats

Murakami Haruki

The Simulacrum in Contemporary Japanese Culture

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Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a new approach to dealing with Murakami's radical narrative project by demonstrating how his first and later trilogies utilize the structure of the simulacrum, a second-order representation, to develop a complex critique of contemporary Japanese culture.

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Produktdetails

• Studies of Modern Japan
• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 555g
• ISBN-13: 9780739127254
• ISBN-10: 073912725X
• Artikelnr.: 23543011

Autorenporträt

Michael R. Seats is senior lecturer in the Division of Language Studies at City University of Hong Kong.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Part I: Theoretical Preliminaries Chapter 2 The Murakami Phenomenon:
Critical/Fictional Thematics Chapter 3 Simulacral Structures: Modernity,
the Global and the Idea of the Japanese Novel Chapter 4 The Theory of the
Simulacrum:Trajectories and Limits Part 5 Part II: The Critique of
Orthodoxy 6 Parody, Pastiche, Metafiction: Hear the Wind Sing 7 Allegory as
Modality:Pinball, 1973 8 Alleory as Landscape: A Wild Sheep Chase 9 Part
III: The Return of the Referent 10 The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: Contexts 11
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: Subject and Text 12 The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle:
Stories 13 Conclusion: From Simulacrum to Differend