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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…
Lin Yu
“Event”, as a mainstream in contemporary philosophy, remains its hot status in various research areas. Since it has experienced a “linguistic turn” in philosophy, this paper mainly discusses the philosophical development of event ontology, event semantic, eve…
Wenjing Lu
The reasons of the tragic suffering of women in the novel “White Deer Plain” are discussed. Three types of women facing feudal oppression are analyzed. The author of the novel “White Deer Plain” rethinks the traditional culture and shows its ruthlessness in s…
Li Huai Chang, Ding Bang Luh
The fairy tales are a cultural legacy continuing to have a powerful enchantment. The story became traditional not by being created but by being retold over the centuries and accepted in changing environments. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, fair…
Yining Ma
This article takes Robert Lowell’s first confessional book of poems, Life Studies as the object of study, and instead of focusing primarily on the oft-discussed autobiographical and historical factors, concentrates upon the philosophical pursuit — exist…
Mahmoud Jamal Rayan
This research is an interpretive study about the construction of the central character and the detection of the heroic role, and then the meaning and significance in “Hayat” by Mohammad Ali Saeed. The research has adopted an approach illustrated according to…
Rania Samir Youssef
Readers according to Virginia Woolf are co-creators of the text with writers. Reading requires letting imagination loose in order to become transported into a text, thus, eliciting cognitive empathy. Empathy has become recently a field of interest in several…
Liza Piña-Rubio
The present paper recognizes the pertinence of the monastic culture in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili or Strife of Love in a Dream , written by Francesco Colonna in 1499. Taking as a starting point the hypothesis that the author was a Venetian monk, the resear…
Monica Mastrantonio
Letters are not merely literature pieces for curiosity and daily amenities, but means of extensive use in the past when there were not many options for distance communication. Although privately written letters are public documents that offer valuable informa…
Giuseppe Giordano
Measure for Measure is a play by William Shakespeare that represents moral issues concerning corruption, virtue, justice and purity. A prominent character of the play, Angelo, holds the position of Deputy and representative of the law but his conscience is to…
Mehriban Asadullasoy
The work of the representatives of the Nakhchivan literary environment at the end of the XIX century and at the beginning of the XX century in the field of publicism has been investigated in this article. The activity of the writers who had an exceptional rol…
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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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