ENG 114 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Haruki Murakami, Heteroglossia
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Kitaru (20), who has a kansai dialect. Wants to become a different person but in a different manner than his friend tanimura. He wants to become a different person from his culture not a different person than himself. Speaks kansai to confront expectations, leading people to nd him confusing and annoying. Makes up his own words from the beatles song yesterday . Story is told as a remembrance of student days. A time of enormous tumult, everything was being turned upside down. In exams since you can"t italicize, you put quotations around the title. Theme"s often involve: life transitions, stepping away from normality of life, and music. Doppelg nger = double-goer ; a look-alike or double of a living person. Heteroglossia = the idea that characters in stories represent different facets of each other, and different facets of the author. Polyphony = ^ but also a musical term referring to multiple musical voices or melodies working together.
