haruki murakami is one of the most well-known authors in contemporary world literature. kafke on the shore is considered amongst his best novels. in this essay, this novel is analyzed from narratology perspective and in this regard, narratological and mythological approaches are used. to this end, after looking at roland barthes’ attitude towards narratology, the narrative of the novel is shown...

A rite of passage is a ritual event that marks a person's transition from one status to another, including birth, coming-of-age, marriage and death. One of the rite of passage is funeral and its Rituals .A funeral is a ceremony for honoring, respecting, sanctifying, or remembering the life of a person who has died. Funerary customs comprise the complex of beliefs and practices used by a culture...

motifs and mythical thoughts through human history go into a variety of formats to survive and are reconstructed, recreated and reproduced in ideas and different worlds. one of these realms and worlds is a mystical world. motifs and common points of the world of myth and mysticism in foundations of knowledge,interpretability, sacred time and space, symbolic language stem the possibility of conv...