Matthew C Strecher
Biographic Data
| ID | 1250648 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew C Strecher |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew C |
| FAMILY NAME | Strecher |
| SIGNATURE | STRECHER M C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Winona State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Out of the (B)earth canal: The mythic journey in Murakami Haruki
From the start of his writing career Murakami Haruki has sent his hero on underground quests. While all, or nearly all, of his heroes accomplish their most immediate missions in the Underworld, however, few return to the everyday world truly fulfilled. This essay explores the Murakami quest in terms of myth and sacred ritual, paying special attention to ritual initiation as a form of symbolic death and rebirth. It focuses chiefly on the 2017 nove…
The celebrity of Haruki Murakami and the 'empty' narrative: A New Model for the Age of Global Literature
Is Haruki Murakami truly a Japanese celebrity author? If so, how and why has this come about? These are profoundly difficult questions. It may be that literary ‘celebrity’ is a phenomenon not found
At the Critical Stage: A Report on the State of Murakami Haruki Studies
Since the start of his career over 30 years ago, Murakami Haruki (b. 1949) has been a controversial figure in the world of Japanese literature. Writing in an undecorated plainstyle that gives little in the way of cultural specificity, and on themes that could apply to persons from almost any land, Murakami’s work is deemed mukokuseki – without nationality – by critics. Many in and out of Japan expect that Murakami will be awarded the Nobel Prize …
The Japanization of Modernity: Murakami Haruki between Japan and the United States (review)
Murakami Haruki: The Simulacrum in Contemporary Japanese Culture (review)
Reviewed by: Murakami Haruki: The Simulacrum in Contemporary Japanese Culture Matthew C. Strecher (bio) Murakami Haruki: The Simulacrum in Contemporary Japanese Culture. By Michael Seats. Lexington Books, Lanham, Md., 2006. xviii, 364 pages. $70.00. As the so-called "Murakami Haruki Phenomenon" continues to grow, with new translations of the author's work appearing annually in a multitude of languages, it is perhaps inevitable that English-langua…
(R)evolution in the Land of the Lonely: Murakami Ryū and the Project to Overcome Modernity
Using a form of fictional reportage he terms the 'document novel' Murakami Ryū has spent the past ten years probing the underlying causes of many of Japan's most critical social problems, from domestic violence and the rising school drop-out rate to phenomena such as 'compensated dating' and the hikikomori problem. At the root of these issues stands one seemingly insurmountable culprit: the recent completion of Japan's 'project of modernization'.…
Magical Realism and the Search for Identity in the Fiction of Murakami Haruki
Beyond "Pure" Literature: Mimesis, Formula, and the Postmodern in the Fiction of Murakami Haruki
With the publication ofKaze no Uta o Kike(Hear the Wind Sing; 1979), Murakami Haruki (b. 1949) found himself more or less at odds with well-known members of the Japanese literary establishment. If one takes Murakami at his word, this was not the result of conscious effort on his part, but rather a matter of his own individualism, a certain indifference (feigned or not) toward the conventions and opinions of professional critics in Japan's literar…
Purely Mass or Massively Pure? The Division Between 'Pure' and 'Mass' Literature
S INCE the beginning of the twentieth century, and perhaps some time before it, Japanese literary critics have approached their subject under the assumption that not all literature is created equal. That is to say, of the multifarious texts produced by writers of all types, only a select few are deemed worthy of the attention of the established critics, while the rest is bequeathed to the common run of readers, the 'masses'. Moreover, in many cas…
Purely Mass or Massively Pure? The Division Between 'Pure' and 'Mass' Literature
S INCE the beginning of the twentieth century, and perhaps some time before it, Japanese literary critics have approached their subject under the assumption that not all literature is created equal. That is to say, of the multifarious texts produced by writers of all types, only a select few are deemed worthy of the attention of the established critics, while the rest is bequeathed to the common run of readers, the 'masses'. Moreover, in many cas…
At the Critical Stage: A Report on the State of Murakami Haruki Studies
Since the start of his career over 30 years ago, Murakami Haruki (b. 1949) has been a controversial figure in the world of Japanese literature. Writing in an undecorated plainstyle that gives little in the way of cultural specificity, and on themes that could apply to persons from almost any land, Murakami’s work is deemed mukokuseki – without nationality – by critics. Many in and out of Japan expect that Murakami will be awarded the Nobel Prize …
Beyond "Pure" Literature: Mimesis, Formula, and the Postmodern in the Fiction of Murakami Haruki
With the publication ofKaze no Uta o Kike(Hear the Wind Sing; 1979), Murakami Haruki (b. 1949) found himself more or less at odds with well-known members of the Japanese literary establishment. If one takes Murakami at his word, this was not the result of conscious effort on his part, but rather a matter of his own individualism, a certain indifference (feigned or not) toward the conventions and opinions of professional critics in Japan's literar…
The celebrity of Haruki Murakami and the 'empty' narrative: A New Model for the Age of Global Literature
Is Haruki Murakami truly a Japanese celebrity author? If so, how and why has this come about? These are profoundly difficult questions. It may be that literary ‘celebrity’ is a phenomenon not found
Magical Realism and the Search for Identity in the Fiction of Murakami Haruki
Purely Mass or Massively Pure? The Division Between 'Pure' and 'Mass' Literature
S INCE the beginning of the twentieth century, and perhaps some time before it, Japanese literary critics have approached their subject under the assumption that not all literature is created equal. That is to say, of the multifarious texts produced by writers of all types, only a select few are deemed worthy of the attention of the established critics, while the rest is bequeathed to the common run of readers, the 'masses'. Moreover, in many cas…
Beyond "Pure" Literature: Mimesis, Formula, and the Postmodern in the Fiction of Murakami Haruki
With the publication ofKaze no Uta o Kike(Hear the Wind Sing; 1979), Murakami Haruki (b. 1949) found himself more or less at odds with well-known members of the Japanese literary establishment. If one takes Murakami at his word, this was not the result of conscious effort on his part, but rather a matter of his own individualism, a certain indifference (feigned or not) toward the conventions and opinions of professional critics in Japan's literar…
Magical Realism and the Search for Identity in the Fiction of Murakami Haruki
Murakami Haruki: The Simulacrum in Contemporary Japanese Culture (review)
Reviewed by: Murakami Haruki: The Simulacrum in Contemporary Japanese Culture Matthew C. Strecher (bio) Murakami Haruki: The Simulacrum in Contemporary Japanese Culture. By Michael Seats. Lexington Books, Lanham, Md., 2006. xviii, 364 pages. $70.00. As the so-called "Murakami Haruki Phenomenon" continues to grow, with new translations of the author's work appearing annually in a multitude of languages, it is perhaps inevitable that English-langua…
(R)evolution in the Land of the Lonely: Murakami Ryū and the Project to Overcome Modernity
Using a form of fictional reportage he terms the 'document novel' Murakami Ryū has spent the past ten years probing the underlying causes of many of Japan's most critical social problems, from domestic violence and the rising school drop-out rate to phenomena such as 'compensated dating' and the hikikomori problem. At the root of these issues stands one seemingly insurmountable culprit: the recent completion of Japan's 'project of modernization'.…
The Japanization of Modernity: Murakami Haruki between Japan and the United States (review)
At the Critical Stage: A Report on the State of Murakami Haruki Studies
Since the start of his career over 30 years ago, Murakami Haruki (b. 1949) has been a controversial figure in the world of Japanese literature. Writing in an undecorated plainstyle that gives little in the way of cultural specificity, and on themes that could apply to persons from almost any land, Murakami’s work is deemed mukokuseki – without nationality – by critics. Many in and out of Japan expect that Murakami will be awarded the Nobel Prize …
The celebrity of Haruki Murakami and the 'empty' narrative: A New Model for the Age of Global Literature
Is Haruki Murakami truly a Japanese celebrity author? If so, how and why has this come about? These are profoundly difficult questions. It may be that literary ‘celebrity’ is a phenomenon not found
Out of the (B)earth canal: The mythic journey in Murakami Haruki
From the start of his writing career Murakami Haruki has sent his hero on underground quests. While all, or nearly all, of his heroes accomplish their most immediate missions in the Underworld, however, few return to the everyday world truly fulfilled. This essay explores the Murakami quest in terms of myth and sacred ritual, paying special attention to ritual initiation as a form of symbolic death and rebirth. It focuses chiefly on the 2017 nove…
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