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Women and Comparative Religion
Across geographic regions during the Middle Ages, religion offered pretexts for confining women to prescribed gender roles, but it also served as a...
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A comparative study of the body and power between Han Feizi and Michel Foucault
The body has increasingly become a research hotspot, with a focus being the relationship between the body and power. Michel Foucault’s Discipline and...
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Wordsworth’s Gothic Education: The Excursion
This chapter turns from the “Gothic” politics of the Peninsular War to the “Gothic” terms of debate around national education, focusing particularly...
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Debatable genre: comparative poetics in the wild animal stories of Ernest Thompson Seton and Shixi Shen
Taking the wild animal story as a debatable genre across cultures, this article examines the poetics of wildlife representation in Ernest Thompson...
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Literary History and the Literary Canon in School Education: An Orthodox Upbringing
One of the first influential literary anthologies for secondary-school students was published in 1819 by Nikolai Grech (Uchebnaia kniga russkoi...
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Incorporating Intercultural Competence into EFL Classrooms: The Case of Japanese Higher Education Institutions
As the world becomes increasingly interconnected, Japanese universities compete fiercely to foster globally competent human resources who are able to...
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Conclusions and Outlook
The three subsections intent to link the summarized results to a pedagogical comparative reflection and future research directions for all three...
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Introduction
In this introductory chapter, the case is made for a new approach to comparative criticism—one capable of thinking seriously about the ‘short...
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An Overview of Intermedial Studies in China
This chapter makes an overview of the contemporary interart/intermedial studies in China and unfolds six stories: (1) Criticism of sister arts in the...
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Investigating Teachers’ Perspectives of Critical Literacies A Comparison of Case Studies in Canada and in Europe
This book focuses on exploring and reconstructing teachers’ perspectives of critical literacies comparatively. More specifically, the book highlights...
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Storytelling for a republic of childhood: rebranding China’s national images in children’s literature
This article delineates the discursive trajectory of Chinese children’s literature and explicates its specific storytelling strategies to integrate...
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Teaching and Studying Shakespeare in Higher Education in Early Twentieth-Century Japan
This chapter considers how teaching and studying Shakespeare evolved in higher education institutions in early twentieth century Japan. The first...
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Lexical Bundles of Stance in Upper-Level Argumentative Literary Essays and Expert-Level Literary Criticism Articles: A Comparative Dispersion Study
Preferential treatment for Inner Circle academic discourse communities’Community written conventions continues to pose a challenge for Outer and...
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An Overview of Intermedial Studies in China
This chapter makes an overview of the contemporary interart/intermedial studies in China and unfolds six stories: (1). Criticism of sister arts in...
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Historical Introduction
Part 1 of the book deals with changes in Russian literary historiography and secondary-school literary education in the post-Soviet years. I discuss...
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“The Ideas Are in the Air”: From Drone Bees to Honey Women, Cultural Paradox in the Democratic Rhetoric of British Chartism and Colonial Australian Suffragism
Honeybees have long held a literal and figurative position in political representations of the social body. This chapter presents a comparative...
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The West and the Resistance: Stakeholders’ Perceptions of Teaching Shakespeare for and against Westernisation in Japanese Higher Education
This chapter explores the question ‘Is Shakespeare perceived as one of the powerful global icons through which local education is westernised?’ in...
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Soviet Latvia and Exile: Political Changes in the Aftermath of WWII and Their Impact on Latvian Literary Histories
In this chapter we examine a variety of publications on literary history from the late 1940s to the 1980s, whether issued in the Western diaspora or...
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Intermediality, Teaching, and Literacy
Literacy and learning to read media forms have been somewhat underestimated, even if the wide-ranging debates about the conceptualization of the...
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A comparative study of Pearl S. Buck’s and Mao Dun’s Chinese rural works
Pearl S. Buck is famous for her novels about China. However, this American novelist receives much censorship from the Chinese intellectuals because...