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Advances in Literary Study (ALS) is an open access journal. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for researchers and practitioners all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in all areas of Literary Study.All manuscripts must be prepared in English and are subjec…
Ruixuan Feng
The Corner of Altay was written in the flourishing period when non-fiction literature entered the field of public view in China. It is the creation of this collection of essays that makes The Corner of Altay become one of the representative works of non-ficti…
Linggang Kong
The Dream of the Red Chamber ( Hong Lou Meng ) was written in the late 18th century and is known throughout China as the greatest classical novel. From the early 19th century to the mid-20th century, the translation of this classical novel constantly appeared…
Najwa Ghneem
The Egyptian critic ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz Ḥammouda grew in an important period of the twentieth century that is characterized by benefitting from the Western critical theories. The Arab critics’ responses to them varied in attitude and interactio…
Zhiling Wu, Li Wei
The Color Purple written by Alice Walker is a powerful cultural touchstone of modern American literature to indicate a large number of symbolic images with profound meanings. The paper analyzes the rich meanings contained in the symbolic images and metaphors,…
Oumar Ndiaye
Considered as having recently sprung up, health literature has suffered a long neglect by critics. However, with the outbreak of COVID-19, the latter has not finished reviving traces of literary pandemic representations. Consequently, much research is nowaday…
Pucheng Wang, Yajuan Gao
The present study investigated how English as a foreign language (EFL) writers read and used source texts whilst reading-to-write. Two separate studies were conducted. In Study I, 16 participants were first completing a reading-to-write task on an eye-tracker…
Mei Sun
Death of a Salesman premiered in 1949, deeply revealing an intuitive understanding of the society at that time. Since then, the tragic masterpiece has been studied hundreds of times in a variety of theories. In the third decade of the twenty-first century, mo…
Thaier Kizel
This research aims at addressing the translation of Najīb Maḥfūẓ ’s As-Sukriyyah by Sami Mikhail into Hebrew. In the research, I will try to make some observations about Mikhail’s translation of the novel. The research began with a general introdu…
Jinshu Yao
Created by John Barth in the mid-to-late period of his life, Once Upon a Time: A Floating Opera (hereinafter referred to as Once Upon a Time ) is one of Barth’s significant novels which explore various possibilities of literary creation. Once Upon a Time was…
Pucheng Wang
This study looked at how English as a Foreign Language (EFL) writers formulated macro and micro writing plans, as well as how they translated abstract ideas into concrete linguistic forms while completing a reading-to-write task. Results showed that most of t…
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Advances in Literary Study (ALS) is an open access journal. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for researchers and practitioners all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in all areas of Literary Study.All manuscripts must be prepared in English and are subjec… All articles are open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence, with authors retaining copyright.
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