"Birthday Girl" as a Teaching Material : The Formation of "His Story" in Its Narrative Function(<Special Issue>Unearthing the Contexts: Literary Education and Narration)

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  • 村上春樹「バースデイ・ガール」の教材研究のために : <語り>が生成する「僕」の物語を読む(<特集><文脈>を掘り起こす-文学教育と<語り>)
  • 村上春樹「バースデイ・ガール」の教材研究のために--〈語り〉が生成する「僕」の物語を読む
  • ムラカミ ハルキ バースデイ ガール ノ キョウザイ ケンキュウ ノ タメニ カタリ ガ セイセイ スル ボク ノ モノガタリ オ ヨム

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In this article I will demonstrate the value of Haruki Murakami's short story "Birthday Girl" as a teaching material. The story is told by a male narrator who talks about himself in the form of a story of his girlfriend. The old method of character analysis doesn't work well for the explication of such narrative construction, for it shows not how the story is structurally formed but merely what the characters stand for. Any teaching method of literature must be constructed on the analysis of narrative function.

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