Search for dissertations about: "Haruki Murakami"

Found 1 swedish dissertation containing the words Haruki Murakami.

  2. 1. Shock and Naturalization : An Inquiry into the Perception of Modernity

    Author : Carl Cassegård; Sociologi; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Kawabata Yasunari; Murakami Haruki; Japanese studies; literature; Adorno; Benjamin; modernity; critical theory; Sociology; Kawabata Yasunari; Murakami Haruki; Adorno; Benjamin; Sociologi;

    Abstract : In sociology shock is often seen as emblematic of modernity. However, while Benjamin and Simmel famously portray the big city crowd - and by extension modernity itself - as an arena of shock, shock sensations are notable for their absence in depictions of the crowd as well as of modernity as a whole in much contemporary literature. READ MORE