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Intermedia, Multimedia, and Media
This chapter recovers the lost history of intermedia. This history relates to the earliest use of the term intermedia, a word coined in 1965 by...
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The City Lament: Mediterranean Microecologies of Courtly Love
This chapter focuses on Dante’s Vita Nova (The New Life), a work that precedes and finds retrospective completion in the Divine Comedy. It contrasts...
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Formal Fictions: “Chinese” “Science” “Fiction” in Translation
The literary genre of science fiction in Chinese literatures has historically been inextricable from anxieties about Westernization, national power,...
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A Comparative Study on Chinese Big Tradition and Western Great Tradition
The great tradition proposed by European and American anthropologists is a concrete manifestation of western word-centric, ideological and elitist...
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John Updike in Serbia
This chapter examines the rationale for teaching the works of John Updike in Serbia. The first part, written by Biljana Dojčinović, outlines the...
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A Global Critique of Neoliberalism? The Comparative Humans of New York and the World
This article asks whether the popular web blog Humans of New York constitutes collective and ethical resistance to the everyday violence of...
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Introducing Literary Geography to the History of Chinese Literature
Debao Pan investigates the introduction of literary geography to the history of Chinese literature in this chapter. Pan observes that, from the late...
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Ivan A. Goncharov “A Voyage to Japan” (Included in The Frigate Pallada) (1858)
Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov, the son of a rich merchant, was born in 1812 in Simbirsk (now Ulyanovsk) on the Volga River. After graduating from...
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Women Across Boundaries: Transnational Exchanges in Nineteenth-Century Europe—Rewriting Women’s History from a Transnational Perspective
This introductory essay examines the editorial agendas of nineteenth-century women who sought to participate in the literary and cultural life of...
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Intermedia, Multimedia, and Media
This chapter recovers the lost history of intermedia. This history relates to the earliest use of the term intermedia, a word coined in 1965 by...
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Research Methodology: Towards Reconstructing Teachers’ Perspectives Comparatively
The focus of this research thesis lies with investigating and reconstructing perspectives of teachers from Canada, Scotland, and Finland with regard...
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Claiming Motherhood: Reproductive Justice and Surrogacy in Chinese American Literature of the New Millennium
This chapter explores the new representation of motherhood in the cases of surrogacy in Chinese American diasporic literature of the new millennium....
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Introduction
The past decades have certainly served as an exponential redefinition of what people understand as culture and society and how these play a role in...
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Civilizing England: Oxford, Empire, and Aesthetic Education
This chapter provides a comparative study of the “The Critic as Artist” and The Soul of Man to explore the connection between aesthetic consumption...
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In the skin of a donkey: On the moral status of animals of burden in two medieval Spanish versions of ‘The Miller, his Son and the Donkey’
Despite a growing interest in the critical study of animals in medieval literary texts, fables have been neglected due to the belief that they do not...
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Dai Jitao Theory of Japan (1928)
Dai Jitao is often referred to as Dai Chuanxian or by his pseudonyms, Dai Xuantang or Dai Jitao. As a journalist, his pen name was Dai Tianchou. He...
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Latvian Literary Histories from 1812 to 1940: Popular Enlightenment, Romantic Nationalism, and Political Independence
After the publication of the first Latvian-language texts in the sixteenth century, the literary process long continued to develop without the...
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Philosophy in the Flesh: Feeling, Folly, and Animals in Beckett
Scholars have remained fascinated by the relationship between philosophy and the novels, stories, and plays of Samuel Beckett. In particular,...
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Embedded Geographies in GUO Pu’s “River Fu”
Sophia Kidd, from Sichuan University, discusses in this chapter physical and cultural geographies in ** (晋) dynasty GUO Pu’s “River Fu.” Examples of...
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Censor’s scissors in Croatian literature: Sha** a(n) (inter)national community
Using some of the best-known examples from Croatian literature, this article examines the influence of censors on sha** the literary field in the...