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Garay, Gotzone. "The literature review of Penan religion." abstract and full text PDF (free order & download UNR users only), 2006. http://0-gateway.proquest.com.innopac.library.unr.edu/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:1436022.
Full textBrown, Timothy A. "Secret religion : surrealism in the new era of religion." Related electronic resource: Current Research at SU : database of SU dissertations, recent titles available, full text:, 2006. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/syr/main.
Full textShort, Richard Graham. "Religion in Cicero." Thesis, Harvard University, 2012. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10590.
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Lagapa, Jason S. "Inarticulate prayers: Irony and religion in late twentieth-century poetry." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/280295.
Full textWeimer, David E. "Protestant Institutionalism: Religion, Literature, and Society After the State Church." Thesis, Harvard University, 2016. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:33493395.
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Martinelli, Deena A. "Fundamentalist Christian literature and the perception of womanhood /." View abstract, 1999. http://library.ctstateu.edu/ccsu%5Ftheses/1533.html.
Full textThesis advisor: Dr Norton Mezvinsky. " ... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts." Includes bibliographical references (leaves [79-82]).
Platt, Verity J. "Epiphany and representation in Graeco-Roman culture : art, literature, religion." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.422525.
Full textEllis, Matthew Ryan. "William Wordsworth: Religion and Spirituality." Thesis, Boston College, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/358.
Full textAn exploration of the spirituality present in seleceted poems of William Wordsworth. Occasionally reference his personal relationship to and influence of the Anglican Church, but is a study of the way he developed his own spirituality, not an argument for or against his classification as a "Christian poet."
Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2005
Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: English
Discipline: College Honors Program
Twakkal, Abd Alfatah. "Ka'b al-Ahbar and the Isra'iliyyat in the Tafsir literature." Thesis, McGill University, 2008. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=18763.
Full textCette thèse a pour objet d'analyser un certain nombre de traditions reliées à Ka'b al-Ahbar et aux isra'iliyyat que l'on retrouve dans les ouvrages de tafsir d'Ibn Kathir et d'al-Tabari. Le but de cette étude est d'examiner comment Ka'b al-Ahbar, un des premiers juifs convertis à l'islam, était perçu par ses contemporains notamment les Compagnons du Prophète Muhammad, tout en considérant la relation complexe existant entre Ka'b, les isra'iliyyat et les Compagnons les mieux connus pour avoir relaté ces traditions. En examinant la relation entre Ka'b et les Compagnons, incluant ceux qui n'étaient pas connus pour avoir relaté des isra'iliyyat, cette étude servira aussi d'indication de ce que l'on peut dire de Ka'b relatif à son caractère, sa sincérité et son honnêteté par l'intermédiaire de ces contemporains. Ce travail fournira aux chercheurs une base plus solide permettant d'accepter ou de rejeter des descriptions ou des traits critiques lui ayant été attribués par des savants plus récents, surtout durant le 20e siècle. Enfin, cette thèse cherche à démontrer les divers facteurs qui doivent être pris en compte dans l'analyse des traditions ayant trait à Ka'b et/ou ses dires qui se trouvent dans les textes de tafsir, facteurs devant également être considérés lorsque l'on aborde de telles traditions dans d'autres genres littéraires islamiques.
Thompson, Mary-Anne Carey. "Future tense : an analysis of science fiction as secular apocalyptic literature." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/15880.
Full textReligious apocalyptic literature appears to have been written in response to a situation of crisis in which the believers found themselves. It is the catalyst which provided the energy which the society needed in order to withstand that crisis, and it did this by radically inverting the dimensions which make up a worldview, that is the dimensions of time and space, and the classification of groups, so that it reflects the possibility of a new order, a new heaven and a new earth. Since the nineteenth century, the Western world has seen itself in a constant state of crisis in terms of the rapid secularisation, industrialisation and urbanisation, and it would seem that the notion of an apocalypse is still relevant. But religious visions of the apocalypse do not seem to have relevance to the largely secular society they would have been addressing. Something new, immediate and drastic was needed, which would supply the society with the energy to withstand the crisis of a secular world. Science fiction as a literary genre arose in the late nineteenth century, and it would seem as if the new social situation generated a new symbolic vocabulary for ancient apocalyptic themes, in other words, science fiction appeared as an imaginative literary genre of mythic, apocalyptic dimensions to address this situation. In the same way as religious visions of the apocalypse, science fiction inverts the components of a worldview so that a new social order, a new heaven and a new earth are seen as possible. In order to explore this theme, science fiction is examined in the light of radical inversion of accepted worldviews, and the genre is divided into three historical periods in order to understand the conditions under which it was written, as well as the content of the material involved. These periods are: 1. Apocalypses of Expectation and Hope. The late nineteenth century and the early twentieth century; the beginnings of the genre in the crisis of rapid industrialisation, secularisation and urbanisation, using the works of Jules Verne and H G Wells. 2. Apocalypses of Irony and Despair. The nineteen twenties to the end of the Second World War; the crises of the two World Wars on a complacent world, using the works of Aldous Huxley and George Orwell. 3. Apocalypses of Destruction and Redemption. The nineteen fifties to the present; the crisis of nuclear power and thinking machines, using the works of Frank Herbert and Isaac Asimov. Also examined are the quasi-religious nature of science fiction, apocalypse as a cleansing agent of the universe, and the myths of noble survivors of post-apocalyptic literature and films. In the light of the above, it can be understood why science fiction can be seen as the functional equivalent to religious apocalyptic myth, but relevant to the largely secular Western world of the twentieth century.
Ashok, Kumar Kuldeep. "Clairvoyance in Jainism: Avadhijñāna in Philosophy, Epistemology and Literature." FIU Digital Commons, 2018. https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3700.
Full textWard, Lowery Nicholas J. L. "Patriarchal negotiations : women, writing and religion 1640-1660." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 1994. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/1682.
Full textMalo, Roberta. "Saints' relics in medieval English literature." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1186329116.
Full textCurran, Timothy M. "The Medievalizing Process: Religious Medievalism in Romantic and Victorian Literature." Scholar Commons, 2018. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/7491.
Full textDubrau, Alexander. "Shmuel Safrai u.a. [Hg.], The literature of the sages, second part: Midrash and Targum, liturgy, poetry, mysticism, contracts, inscriptions, ancient science and the languages of rabbinic literature / [rezensiert von] Alexander Dubrau." Universität Potsdam, 2007. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2008/2235/.
Full textAvni, D. B. "Troubles in Irish writing and the influence of politics and religion." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10032.
Full textIt appeared to me that the differences and a particular atmosphere I found in Irish writing were due to more than the syntax of Hyberno-English. I was curious and to investigate further I returned to university to add English literature as a major to an existing degree in Psychology, Anthropology, Linguistics and the relevant ancillaries. The literary approach to the few - mostly Anglo-Irish - writers on which single courses were offered left my questions mostly unanswered. My own research continue along historical and psycho-sociocultural lines. I believe this approach discovered what I sought.
Kenning, Douglas W. "A failed religion : necessity and freedom in the Romantic poets." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/19007.
Full textCanning, P. "Language, literature and religion : The stylistics of 'ideoloatry' in early modern England." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.517242.
Full textPeter, Dass Rakesh. "Language and Religion in Modern India: The Vernacular Literature of Hindi Christians." Thesis, Harvard University, 2016. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:32108297.
Full textMullan, Stephen. ""An atheist's religion" : Richard Rorty and the "De-divinization" of modern literature." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.501385.
Full textKim, Young-Ho. "People's tradition of religious education /." Access Digital Full Text version, 1991. http://pocketknowledge.tc.columbia.edu/home.php/bybib/11169321.
Full textTypescript; issued also on microfilm. Sponsor: Douglas M. Sloan. Dissertation Committee: William B. Kennedy. Includes bibliographical references: (leaf 139-143).
Anderson, David. "Violence against the sacred: tragedy and religion in early modern England." Thesis, McGill University, 2009. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=32544.
Full textNotre thèse soutient l'idée que la tragédie de la renaissance anglaise reflète la culture religieuse de l'époque dans son évocation de la violence sacrificielle. Elle conteste les présupposés du néo-historicisme à l'égard de la relation entre la religion et la politique et entre la religion et la littérature, en proposant que les dramaturges exprimaient à travers leurs tragédies une crise sacrificielle girardienne qui caractérisait les exécutions des martyres au seizième siècle et qui était alimentée par une crise de conscience par rapport à la violence qui s'exprimait au sein même de l'église. Le premier chapitre fait état du contexte historique. Nous nous intéressons d'abord à l'histoire des martyres protestants et catholiques au seizième et au début du dix-septième siècles. Nous détaillons ensuite la doctrine de l'église persécutée, c'est à dire la conviction issue du nouveau testament que la véritable église est nécessairement une minorité persécutée au nom du Christ, au travers des écrits de nombreux écrivains de l'époque. Figure illustre parmi ces écrivains, le martyrologue John Foxe cultivait une tendance anti-sacrificielle au sein de l'église nationale. Nous examinons enfin comment cette théologie centrée sur la victime bouleversa le consensus face aux exécutions religieuses, en présentant un champ émotionnel exploité par les dramaturges tragiques. Chacun des trois chapitres suivants se consacre à un différent dramaturge. Le deuxième chapitre aborde King Lear de Shakespeare qui se distingue précisément par la compassion qui y est manifestée pour la victime sacrificielle. King Lear ne fait preuve d'aucune
Bates, David Christopher. "Religion and the sacred in the works of Haruki Murakami." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10722/192981.
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Meyers, Jeanne Marie Gillespie. "World views in literature a Christian awareness and interposition /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1987. http://www.tren.com.
Full textBushelle, Ethan David. "The Joy of the Dharma: Esoteric Buddhism and the Early Medieval Transformation of Japanese Literature." Thesis, Harvard University, 2015. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:17467509.
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Gilmour, Michael J. "The significance of parallels between 2 Peter and other early Christian literature /." Thesis, McGill University, 2000. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=36794.
Full textIn many cases literary parallels have played a role in both developing and defending such theories. By observing similarities between texts (and put negatively, by observing how texts differ from one another---the absence of parallels) a variety of conclusions may be reached: one writing borrowed from another, writings that share a theological perspective belong to the same period of history, writings derive from a school, and so on.
This dissertation analyses several examples of how 2 Peter specifically is located using parallels as a basis. It is argued for a number of reasons that this 'tool' is not reliable and so, to assist with historical research, a series of criteria are given. These are provided as guidelines to help historians evaluate literary parallels and also to safeguard against inappropriate conclusions based on them. With respect to 2 Peter, it is argued that firm answers are out of reach for various questions given the available data.
Riveroll, Jesus R. de Lima. "The post/colonial Caribbean novel 1925-1945 : 'race', religion and national culture." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.266608.
Full textCasey, John J. "An apostate instauration : religion, moral vision and humanism in modern science fiction." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 1989. http://oleg.lib.strath.ac.uk:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=23759.
Full textKindt, Julia Christine. "The Delphic Oracles : a poetics of futures past between history, literature, and religion." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.620000.
Full textTann, Donovan Eugene. "Spaces of Religious Retreat in Seventeenth-Century English Literature and Culture." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2014. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/277961.
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Religious spaces are inextricably bound to the seventeenth century's most challenging theological and epistemological questions. In my dissertation, I argue that seventeenth-century writers represent specifically religious spaces as testing grounds for contemporary theological and philosophical debates about the material foundations of religious knowledge and the epistemological foundations of religious community. By examining how religious concerns shape the period's construction of literary spaces, I contend that religion's developing privacy reflects this previously unexamined conversation about religious knowledge and communal belief. My focus on the central theological and philosophical ideas that shape these literary texts demonstrates how this ongoing conversation about religious space contributes to the increasingly individuated character of religious knowledge at the beginning of the long eighteenth century and shapes the history of religion's social dimension. I explore this conversation in two distinct parts. I first examine those writers who contend with new sensory and experiential bases of religious belief as they represent dedicated religious spaces. After considering how Nicholas Ferrar's family pursues religious knowledge through dedicated religious spaces, I argue that John Milton's Paradise Regained evaluates competing bases of religious knowledge through an extended debate about religious space and knowledge. Finally, I contend that Margaret Cavendish transforms an imagined convent space into an argument that nature serves as the sole source of religious knowledge. In the second part, I examine writers who contend with the social consequences of individual accounts of religious knowledge. The sequel to John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress articulates the writer's struggle to reconcile an individual epistemology with the concerns of the religious community. Like Bunyan, Mary Astell seeks to unify individual believers with her proposal for a rationally persuasive Cartesian religion. Finally, William Penn relies on the solitary space of the conscience in his advertisements for Pennsylvania. As these writers seek to reconcile the individual's role in the production of religious knowledge with religion's social manifestations, they associate religious belief and practice with increasingly private, bounded constructions of space. These complex articulations of religion's place in the world play a significant role in religion's developing spatial privacy by the end of the seventeenth century.
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Lindgren-Hansen, Kaitlyn. "Unsettling religion: anger and race in The bondwoman's narrative." Thesis, University of Iowa, 2019. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/6790.
Full textCobb, Michael L. "Racial blasphemies : religious irreverence and race in American literature /." New York : Routledge, 2005. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb39232188k.
Full textJames, Robin G. "Politics, religion and philosophy in the poetry of George Chapman (c. 1559 - 1634)." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.339630.
Full textSanders, Adam K. "Mimetic Transformations of Sacred Symbols: Christianity in Appalachian Literature." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2005. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1009.
Full textScott-Coe, Justin M. "Covenant Nation: The Politics of Grace in Early American Literature." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2012. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgu_etd/45.
Full textWilkinson, Alexander S. "Mary Queen of Scots in the polemical literature of the French Wars of Religion." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/2737.
Full textCarter, Christopher Richards. "Springing from the Same Root: Religion and Art in the Fiction of Willa Cather." W&M ScholarWorks, 1991. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625670.
Full textDawkins, Sabrina Y. "Postmodernity and the history of African American religious representations a Foucauldian approach /." Greensboro, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2007. http://libres.uncg.edu/edocs/etd/1505Dawkins/umi-uncg-1505.pdf.
Full textTitle from PDF t.p. (viewed Mar. 11, 2008). Directed by Steven R. Cureton; submitted to the Dept. of Sociology. Includes bibliographical references (p. 103-115).
Rep, Marco. "Jewish Religion on Trial : Understanding Isaac Babel’s Short Story "Karl-Yankel"." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Ryska, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-29358.
Full textPereira, Rosemeire França de Assis Rodrigues. "O letrado e o óbolo - Vieira e a justificação da pobreza." Universidade de São Paulo, 2012. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8149/tde-08112012-121049/.
Full textThis research aims to analyze the writings of the Jesuit Antonio Vieira about poverty, inasmuch they are related to religious thoughts in that period. Considering the quantity of writings, either speeches or letters, we have selected those ones keeping closer relationships to that theme. Discussing this issue, we have researched about XVII Century, focusing mainly the poverty, misery and bastardy. The close relationships of historical and documental speeches to Vieiras writings reveal us how was the society managed by the Portuguese and how they tried to insert themselves in the Modernity, rethinking the economical organization and redrawing the social panorama in Portugal.
Phillips, Marion Jane. "Charlotte Bronte's concepts of transcendence and of authority in religion as manifested in her correspondence." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 1991. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/charlotte-brontes-concepts-of-transcendence-and-of-authority-in-religion-as-manifested-in-her-correspondence(ce24cb7e-bdbd-4d80-8f6d-989de33888fc).html.
Full textJany, Ursula Berit. "Heresy or Ideal Society? A Study of Early Anabaptism as Minority Religion in German Fiction." The Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1370895011.
Full textCarvalho, Karla Duarte. "Das narrativas maravilhosas do oriente às narrativas do ocidente um perfil da influência muçulmana na construção do universo feminino medieval ibérico." Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2012. http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=4467.
Full textAo longo do processo histórico nas culturas ocidentais e orientais o papel feminino esteve relegado ao segundo plano. Tanto a religião quanto a tradição oral tiveram papéis primordiais no aprisionamento do feminino no quarto escuro da História. A teoria da mulher como origem e potência do mal remonta à antiguidade. Muitos historiadores acreditam na existência de sociedades matriarcais que foram desarticuladas pelas sociedades patriarcais. O universo feminino foi, e ainda é na atualidade, um grande enigma para os homens.A presente dissertação tem o objetivo de demonstrar a importância da religião, dos mitos, lendas e contos na construção da figura feminina medieval, para isso, abordaremos como a tradição oral em conjunto com as religiões patriarcais reforçou a ideia da mulher como origem e potência do mal. Recorremos a aspectos históricos, religiosos e literários, procuramos por intermédio de a Bíblia Sagrada e de O Corão entender a influência religiosa, além de verificarmos quais os aspectos históricos que tiveram relevância na perpetuação da misoginia e a ainda como a tradição oral teve a sua cota na construção desse universo misógino. Tentamos compreender como se deu a conexão entre tradição oral e religião na formulação da figura feminina e o porquê dessa mulher ter historicamente uma posição desprivilegiada diante de determinadas culturas
Throughout the historical process in the occidental and eastern cultures the feminine paper was relegated to as the plain one. As much the religion how much the verbal tradition had had primordial papers in the capture of the feminine one in the dark room of History. The theory of the woman as origin and power of the evil retraces the antiquity. Many historians believe the existence of matriarchal societies that had been disarticulated by the patriarchal societies. The feminine universe was, and still it is in the present time, still it is in the present time, a great enigma for the men. The present dissertation has the objective to demonstrate the importance of the religion, of myths, legends and stories in the construction of the medieval feminine figure, for this, we will approach as the verbal tradition in set with the patriarchal religions strengthened the idea of the woman as origin and power of the evil. We appeal the historical, religious and literary aspects, look for intermediary of The Hole Bible and The Koran to understand the influence religious, beyond verifying which the historical aspects that had still had relevance in the perpetuation of the misogyny and as the verbal tradition had its quota in the construction of this misogynist universe. We try to understand as if it gave to the connection between verbal tradition and religion in the formularization of the feminine figure and why of this woman to have historically underprivileged position ahead of determined cultures
Yoo, Baekyun. "Religion and Politics in the Poetry of W.B. Yeats." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1997. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278080/.
Full textDollimore, Jonathan. "Radical tragedy : religion, ideology and power in the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 1985. http://repository.royalholloway.ac.uk/items/53cbc055-2f12-417b-bf0b-22329cadfb23/1/.
Full textJönsson, Robert. "Literature for the Intercultural Classroom : Discussing Ethnocentric Issues Using The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR), 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-41525.
Full textDominant cultures exist in many different guises, yet may function almost invariably in symbiosis with double standards and discrimination. However, these acts are often only recognised by those being subjected to them, not by those practising the same. Selective concern and empathy depending on who the practitioners happen to be, as well as who the recipients of said acts are, actually helps to illustrate the precise definitions of these terms.
Wilkes, Kristin. "God and the Novel: Religion and Secularization in Antebellum American Fiction." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/18713.
Full textAcker, John Thomas. "Surrogate Scriptures: American Christian Bestsellers and the Bible, 1850-1900." The Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1500571519102149.
Full textHusain, Taneem. "Empty Diversity in Muslim America: Religion, Race, and the Politics of U.S. Inclusion." The Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1433503511.
Full textSkeen, Autumn Alexander. "Compassion as catalyst| The literary manifestations of Murakami Haruki's transformation from Underground to Kafka on the Shore." Thesis, California State University, Dominguez Hills, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10020164.
Full textMurakami Haruki's primary readership consists of Japan's four million born between 1978 and 1990—an Ice Age of hiring freezes and layoffs. Murakami's cynical antiheroes modeled a blasé and passive cool. Japanese youth assimilated his tenor and tone. A moral struggle was missing. Following Tokyo's 1995 cult-instigated gas attacks, the repatriating author delved into his 1997-98 reportage, Underground. Despairing apocalyptic outlooks among the economically abandoned respondents rocked Murakami's insularity. The shock engendered his unprecedented compassion.
This thesis arises from phenomena revealed by current events' intersection with moral philosophy and disposition theory. This thesis claims that Murakami's compassion for Japan's stymied youth triggered his transformation from creating detrimental art to work of engaged responsibility, and that his moral turn manifests first as the 2002 didactic novel, Kafka on the Shore. Murakami's ensuing integration of moral values in his postmodernist narratives has led to the short-list for the Nobel Prize.