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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…
Peng Zhao
The paper attempts to reveal the narrative characteristics of The Da Vinci Code from the perspective of feminist narratology. Based on interpretation of embedded narrative, the author discovers that structure of the story is covertly inscribed with male domin…
Linda Abd Al-Rahman Rade Obaid
This study deals with the problem of searching for salvation and death in the poem Badr Shaker Al-Sayyab, “Sifr Ayoub”, and standing by the aesthetic of artistic construction in saying the poet’s visions and his perceptions towards himself and towards existen…
Eisam Asaqli, Mariam Masalha
This study deals with the use of folk songs in two poems by the Egyptian poet ʾAmal Dunqul (1940-1983), ʾiJāza ʿlā Shāṭiʾ al-Baḥr (A Seaside Vacation) and the Al-ḥidād Yalīqu bi Qaṭr Al-nadā (A Mourning Becomes Qa&#…
Mustafa Taher Alhaiadreh
The art of cheating is based on the manipulation of the vocabulary and structures used, and the use of images of linguistic performance that convince the speaker, in which the listener is weak and needy, which causes the other party to respond to it. This typ…
Aboubakar Nana Aichatou
One of the most frequently encountered products of cultural contact is the borrowing. Borrowing is seen to be a source, an important source of language enrichment as well as of language endangerment. When a given language borrows a great amount of lexical ter…
Wei Ding
Animal images are important components in Virginia Woolf’s ecological novels, which are part of natural metaphor. This thesis is an exploration of the process of the cognition in Woolf’s literary creation through the analysis of the usage of the metaphorical…
Ramji Timalsina
What is the effect of a writer’s lifestyle on his/her writings? This article tries to show how they are integrated with an analytical example of Nepali freedom fighter and historical novelist Dayaman Shumsher Rana’s life and writings. Based on his beliefs on…
Zipporah Ampofo, Jonathan Essuman, Ekua Arhin, Richard Ansah
African Writers gave little importance to the role of women in their literary works. The likes of Chinua Achebe and Ayi kwei Armah gave prominence to women characters. This is seen in Ayi Kwei Armah’s text Fragments . This article therefore examines the impor…
Huimin Gao
This paper explores the portrayal of motherhood in Kate Drumgoold’s autobiography A Slave Girl’s Story (1898). Drumgoold’s narrative stresses her sacred experience partly contributes to its shortage of secular life stories. Drumgoold constructs a world of lov…
Long Shi
Black women lived in the bottom of the society; they suffered from oppression of both sexuality and racial discrimination. In Their Eyes Were Watching God , the writer Zora Neale Hurston creates a positive image Janie who seeks for female rights and fulfills…
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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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