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Boundless Venus: the Crossover of the Conscious and Unconscious in the Works of Haruki Murakami
No full textThe objective of this thesis, Boundless Venus, is to examine consciousness in the
works of the contemporary Japanese writer Haruki Murakami. Principally the
discussion concerns itself with the unconscious, its conduits, its benefits upon the
conscious; which lead to the transformation of the self and structure of the literature.
Although the subject has been touched upon before, the conscious and unconscious
have previously been examined as exclusive concepts in Murakami. This research
will be looking at the recent change in the ‘crossover’ between these concepts,
which makes the concepts no longer two mutually exclusive concepts but ‘inclusive
concepts’. This is vital to understanding Murakami’s more recent works and the
nature of his influence on literature.
Boundless Venus explores the entire works of Haruki Murakami, principally his
most recent novel 1Q84 (2011) and his novels Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the
End of the World (1991) and The Wind-up Bird Chronicle (1997). It approaches the
work from a psychoanalytic and critical point of view and focuses on significant
narrative techniques, character development, and themes such as sex, music, and
dreams, used by Murakami to explore the relationship between the conscious and
unconscious and to narrate the crossover between the two
165. Go-Murakami tennō (1328-1368)
No full textIwao Seiichi, Sakamato Tarō, Hōgetsu Keigo, Yoshikawa Itsuji, Akiyama Terukazu, Iyanaga Teizō, Iyanaga Shōkichi, Matsubara Hideichi, Kanazawa Shizue. 165. Go-Murakami tennō (1328-1368). In: Dictionnaire historique du Japon, volume 6, 1981. Lettre G. pp. 92-93
Contemporary Art in Japan and Cuteness in Japanese Popular Culture
No full textThis thesis is an art historical study focussing on contemporary Japan, and in particular the artists Murakami TakashL Mori Mariko, Aida Makoto, and Nara Yoshitomo. These artists represent a generation of artists born in the 1960s who use popular culture to their own ends. From the seminal exhibition 'Tokyo Pop' at Hiratsuka Museum of Art in 1996 which included all four artists, to Murakami's group exhibition 'Little Boy: The Arts of Japan's Exploding Subculture' which opened in April 2005, central to my research is an exploration of contemporary art's engagement with the pervasiveness of cuteness in Japanese culture.
Including key secondary material, which recognises cuteness as not merely something trivial but involving power play and gender role issues, this thesis undertakes an interdisciplinary analysis of cuteness in contemporary Japanese popular culture, and examines howcontemporary Japanese artists have responded, providing original research through interviews with Aida Makoto, Mori Mariko and Murakami Takashi. Themes examined include the deconstruction of the high and low in contemporary art; sh6jo (girl) culture and cuteness; the relation of cuteness and the erotic; the transformation of cuteness into the grotesque; cuteness and nostalgia; and virtual cuteness in Japanese science fiction animation, and computer games.
Director of Studies: Toshio Watanabe
Supervisors: David Ryan and Omuka Toshihar
Thinking outside the Chinese Box: David Mitchell and Murakami Haruki’s subversion of stereotypes about Japan
No full textJapan has often been portrayed by orientalist stereotypes, as famously framed by Edward Said, that were mainly constituted within Europe and North America. There are two distinct streams of orientalist discourse around Japan: traditional Orientalism and techno-Orientalism. Here the West speaks of the Other/the non-West rather than allowing it to speak for itself. In regards to the discourse of ‘Otherness’, another interesting phenomenon is Japan’s self-Orientalising: through the internalisation of the Western Orientalist discourse, Japan identifies itself and constructs its own subjectivity.
In his literary works, the author David Mitchell attempts to subvert the conventional orientalist approach to describe Japan while concurrently maintaining his position as a British observer. He makes use of Western perspectives to cater to his Western readers’ preference for Japan’s traditional and cultural elements, and yet at the same time attempts to subvert stereotypes. Mitchell’s approach is reminiscent of Japanese author Murakami Haruki’s use of both ‘Japaneseness’ and ‘un-Japaneseness’ in his works. Mitchell also learnt the importance of the use of the subjective narrative voice from Murakami. In this article, I examine how David Mitchell, as a western author, attempts to go beyond orientalist stereotypes, and how his writing is influenced by Murakami Haruki
Letter from Miriko [Nagahama] and Harry Murakami to Wilda [Johnson], December 1994
No full textChristmas letter addressed to Wilda [Johnson], describing a family reunion at Mammoth Lakes and providing news of family and friends. Mentioned also are several of Murakami's writings, including the booklet, entitled "A Probable Jesus"; an open letter to Niseis that was printed in the November, [1994?] issue of the Tozai Times, published in Los Angeles; and a future project that Murakami describes as "my Las Vegas project to Niseis residing there."The Manzanar Collection features materials relating to the forced relocation to Manzanar, California, of Miriko Nagahama and Honey Mitsuye Toda, including correspondence, photographs, and newspapers, donated in 1981 and 1995
Design of pharmaceutical tablet formulation for a low water soluble drug : search for the critical concentration of starch based disintegrant applying percolation theory and F-CAD (Formulation-Computer Aided Design)
No full textThe topic of this PhD work is to search the critical concentration of starch based disintegrant applying percolation theory and F-CAD (Formulation-Computer Aided Design) in order to design a pharmaceutical tablet formulation for a low water soluble drug. Critical concentration of maize starch (MS) for a ternary mefenamic acid (MA) tablet formulation with respect to a minimum disintegration time is investigated. Additionally implemented application of F-CAD to compute the disintegration time of MA tablet formulation is presented. This topic is related to push forward the idea of Quality by Design (QbD) of FDA (Food and Drug Administration) / EMEA (European Medicines Agency) / PMDA (Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency) and the exploration of the design space according to ICH (International Conference of Harmonization) Q8.
The results of this work shows that the application of percolation theory is not limited to binary tablet formulation. The critical concentration of MS described by the renormalized MS concentration, MS/(MS+MA) applying the renormalization technique is always equal 0.198 (dimensionless). Moreover the critical concentration of MS is optimized using the spline approximation with the dataNESIA software. It is leading to a minimum disintegration time at 0.206, dimensionless, renormalized, which is very close to the experimental value of 0.198. According to the percolation theory, a minimum disintegration time corresponds to the formation of a continuous water-conducting cluster through the entire tablet. The critical volume fraction of an ‘infinite cluster’ that water can diffuse through the entire MA tablets are calculated with taking into account for the geometrical considerations between MS and MA particles based on random close packed (RCP) spheres system. The critical volume fraction of MS is calculated by the multiplication of critical concentration of MS and the solid fraction of MA tablets; which is within the range of 0.16 ± 0.01 (v/v). It is concluded that the critical volume fraction for three dimensional lattices is equal to 0.16 ± 0.01 (v/v); which is useful for the calculation of the critical concentration of starch based disintegrant in order to design the pharmaceutical tablet formulation based on scientific approach proposed by ICH Q8 guidance.
In addition, the disintegration behavior in the neighborhood of the percolation threshold is explained mathematically by the basic equation of the percolation theory, yielding a critical exponent q equal to 0.28 ± 0.06 (Quality of fit: r2 = 0.84). This value is close to the critical exponent for three dimensional lattices (q = 0.4). Thus, it is important, within a planned experimental design to optimize the disintegrant to take into account the percolation theory. However it has to be kept in mind that the determination of the percolation threshold and critical exponent does not give an answer about the absolute value of the disintegration time. Dissolution Simulation (DS) module, which is the one of F-CAD based on cellular automata algorithm is used to simulate the disintegration time of a MA tablet. Disintegration time of tablet is assumed as the time elapsed till the water is detected at the geometric center of the virtual tablet. Comparison of experimental disintegration time of MA tablet and computed specific time point for water to reach the geometric center of the tablet by using F-CAD software has been carried out and shown an acceptable correlation (Correlation coefficient: r = 0.81). The detailed evaluation of the data shows that there is still a need for optimization of F-CAD for the calculation of the disintegration time in order to achieve a similar or the same performance like in the prediction of the dissolution profile of a tablet formulation. It is concluded that F-CAD software is the only software so far, which is capable of computing the disintegration time of tablets. The software has a great potential to be improved and to be not only used for the safe prediction of the dissolution profile of a tablet formulation but also for a safe prediction of the disintegration time. Thus, such a software is one of the tools for the substitution of laboratory experiments for the purpose of the design and development of new pharmaceutical solid dosage forms. The replacement of expensive laboratory experiments by in-silico experiments is an important issue to reduce development costs and to comply with the requirements of ICH Q8 exploring the design space with response surface methodology. The results of this thesis show in addition that the application of percolation theory is a must in order to detect percolation thresholds. It is important to know the response surfaces close to the percolation threshold of sensitive tablet properties such as the disintegration time to get information about the robustness of the selected formulation. In this context one has to put the question forward if the application of percolation theory should be an integral part of the guidelines of ICH Q8 exploring the formulation design space
Evaluation of Infrastructure Promotion by Swiss Regional, Tourism and Transport Policies
No full textHaruki Murakami and the Ethics of Translation
No full textIn his paper, Haruki Murakami and the Ethics of Translation, Will Slocombe argues that despite the fact that Murakami has gained world-wide popularity recently, there has been little critical attention to his works outside of the comparatively narrow area of Japanese studies. Slocombe proposes that Murakami is too important an author to be limited in this way because of his definition of translation. For Murakami, translation delineates an operative ethics between Self and Other, a dialogue that is not only between different languages and cultures, but also between the private and political spheres, and between different individuals. Slocombe discusses Murakami\u27s works not as translations from the Japanese but presents an analysis of the theme of translation and its significance in terms of national and global identity in the context of comparative cultural studies. Translation is presented as Murakami\u27s method of defending against hegemonic systems, whether global capitalism, political authoritarianism, or prevailing literary trends
Eksistensi Tokoh Shimura Wataru Dalam Novel Go Nen Go No Love Letter Karya Murakami Momoko
No full textKata Kunci: being, having, intersubjektivitas, novel, filsafat sastraManusia memiliki kebutuhan-kebutuhan dasar yang mendorong seseorang untuk mencapai transendensinya. Demi mencapai transendensi, seseorang membutuhkan individu lain. Dalam novel Go Nen Go No Love Letter digambarkan hubungan antara tokoh Shimura dengan tokoh lainnya yang membawa tokoh Shimura Wataru mencapai eksistensinya. Karena itulah dalamstudi ini penulis akan menjawab rumusan masalah dalam penelitian ini yaitu : (1) Bagaimana relasi yang terjalin antara Shimura Wataru dengan istri, sahabat dan anaknya berdasarkan konsep intersubjektivitas Gabriel Marcel (2) Apa bentuk eksistensi tokoh Shimura Wataru dalam pandangan filsafat eksistensialisme Gabriel Marcel.Penelitian ini dilakukan dengan menggunakan deskripsi analisis secara tekstual yang bertujuan untuk menganalisis relasi yang terjalin dan eksistensi tokoh Shimura Wataru dalam novel Go Nen Go No Love Letter. Hasil studi menunjukkan bahwa relasi yang terjalin antara tokoh Shimura Wataru dengan istri, anak dan sahabatnya merupakan hubungan intersubjektivitas. Relasi yang terjalin ini membawa Perubahan dan membawa tokoh Shimura Wataru mencapai eksistensinya. Eksistensi tokoh Shimura Wataru terus hidup walaupun Shimura Wataru telah meninggal dunia.Penulis menyarankan peneliti selanjutnya untuk meneliti kembali dan menggali lebih dalam novel Go Nen Go no Love Letter karya Murakami Momoko ini. Peneliti selanjutnya dapat menganalisa eksistensi tokoh Kondo Nao dengan menggunakan teori filsafat Gabriel Marcel. Peneliti selanjutnya juga dapat menggunakan teori psikologi sastra untuk menganalisa tokoh Kondo Nao
Asimilación y posmodernidad: el género negro en la literatura de Haruki Murakami
No full textResumen:
El siguiente texto presenta la intrincada relación que existe entre el género negro y específicamente, el Hard Boiled estadounidense, y la obra del escritor japonés Haruki Murakami. A través de un análisis de varias de sus obras más destacadas, propone que este autor ha asimilado la estructura central de los textos pertenecientes a este género y la ha adaptado en su narrativa, para dar cuenta de la sociedad contemporánea en la que ocurre la acción de las mismas.
Palabras clave: Literatura japonesa, Haruki Murakami, Género negro.
Abstract:
The following text presents the intricate relationship that exists between the noir genre specifically, the Hard Boiled, and the work of the Japanese writer Haruki Murakami. Through an analysis of several of his most outstanding works, this investigation proposes that this author has assimilated the central structure of the texts belonging to this genre and has adapted them in his narrative to inform about the contemporary society where the action happens.
Keywords: Japanese literature, Haruki Murakami, Noir genre
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