• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.307-314
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• 2021

This study aimed to apply the principle of the semantic network to a long novel in an attempt to understand the structure of the entire document and the manifested relationships between words and words. The costume expressions in Murakami's novel Norwegian Wood were analyzed based on the characters' symbols, relationships, and personality characteristics. The study identified the symbols of the characters in the novel and the relationship properties between the characters through the Clauset-Newman-Moore clustering algorithm. The descriptions and symbols of the relationships between the characters were identified within the worldview that the author had intended. Further, it was confirmed that the expression of each costume according to the character's personality was also connected to the clue that explained said character. This fusion study is academically significant in that it presents a new methodology for analyzing literary works

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.13 no.11
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• pp.617-625
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• 2013

Along with and <1Q84> Murakami Haruki sees through human nature that fades away with time in his latest work with 'color and memory'. This is the type of character or story to read with the deployment of instrument. Costume of characters conceived in the expansion of the body, the inner expression of personal notes. To others what you want to look, how they formed on the body, with a range of social, if you are claiming a statement. To form the body by forming self-practice is that there becomes. This paper the inside of the characters and the apparent strong interest in the set, costume characters, especially characters were recognized as representing the device of novel. Work directly in the results, or is described as a symbolic system of the body and clothing that embodies the meaning of the symbol you want to the structure of the exchange.