JOURNEY «BEYOND THE BODY» IN THE NOVEL OF H. MURAKAMI «KAFKA ON THE BEACH»

The article examines the phenomenon of traveling «beyond the corporeality» of the characters of Haruki Murakami's novel Kafka on the Beach. Special attention is paid to the bodily transformations of the characters, going beyond the limits of physicality, as signs of the loss of personal identity. The article also compares the «bodily journeys» of the main character of the novel with the passage of the labyrinth, which also symbolizes the rite of initiation. The relevance of the research is due to the need to fill in the existing gaps in modern literary criticism on the problems of bodily metamorphoses considered in the designated context, as well as on the study of the creative heritage of H. Murakami in general. The novelty of the research is seen in the fact that the novel by H. Murakami, chosen as the object of research, is analyzed through the prism of the phenomenological theory of corporeality by V. Podorogi, special attention is paid to the concept of «the body outside the norm». The work also reflects the ideas about the physicality and identity of J. Baudrillard, F. Nietzsche, M. Yampolsky et al. It is proved that in the novel the phenomenon of the hero's journey inside his own body is both a sign of the loss of personal identity and a way of acquiring this identity.

A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Study of the Encountering of Hikayat Raja Pasai as A Hero’s Journey via Animated Drawing

This research utilised the practise-based method of art focussing on the hero’s journey and his inquiry in the search for information and knowledge related to Hikayat Raja Pasai; a Malay mythological narrative, for the conceptual framing within phenomenology and methodology (practise-based research). Therefore, this research unfolds the creative process revealing the gaps in reading the narrative into drawing practise, animation making, and hermeneutic phenomenology method as an important instrument in practise-based research.

Temat poszukiwania ojca w twórczości Jacka Dukaja

This essay discusses an important theme in Jacek Dukaj’s writings, namely the difficult relationship between father and son. It examines Dukaj’s works, such as The Plunderer's Daughter and Ice, in which the figure of the absent father who must be found by his child is presented. The son’s journey in search of his lost parent (and his own identity) reflects the pattern of the mythical hero’s journey described by Joseph Campbell and thus ends with a symbolic reconciliation with his father.

The Hero’s Journey as Anti-Narrative: Descent to Dissent on the way up towards Revolution and Resolution in Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite and Disney’s

It can be argued that Campbell’s text The Hero with a Thousand Faces is principally concerned with the individual adventurer, the man or the woman, who embarks on the journey with the goal of breaking the bonds of his or her Oedipal attachments in order to achieve a state of liberation which mostly means not becoming an adult psychoneurotic. Campbell tells us that the stages of the journey are represented in the ritual actions of cultural rites of passage, ceremonials staged by members of a collective in order to usher the individual across difficult thresholds of transformation so that he or she may find the forms and proper feelings of his new estate. Campbell’s elaboration of the phases of the journey for the individual are rich with detail and illuminating evidence for his thesis about the hero’s ultimate objective which he describes as exiting the nursery. But, what of the collective who both reproduce the conditions of the rites of passage for the individual and stand witness to his or her becoming? What is their role in the advance of the hero towards liberation? Is it simply to watch and wait?