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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…
Yaorong He
Place-names and Dinnshenchas have appeared throughout Heaney’s writing career, reflecting his creative trajectory as well as writing process with continuous evolution. Meanwhile, Dinnshenchas by Seamus Heaney have employed vocabularies with Gaelic characteris…
Xiaoying Li, Yingfei Yuan
Rousseau had some peculiar love experiences which many people couldn’t understand, especially the experience with the servant Therese le Vasseur. So in the article, I explored his life background, his love experiences and analyzed his love outlook. Certainly,…
Hongbin Dai, Xiying Liu
Structurally, Loitering with Intent by Muriel Spark presents the typical frame of metafiction, having complicated “fiction within fiction” and mise en abyme as well as texts from other genres. The exposure of artificiality in the novel is mainly carried out i…
David Paige, Theresa Magpuri-Lavell, Timothy Rasinski, Willam Rupley
Reading fluency has been found to be an essential component of proficient reading and is a significant part of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS, 2010; NRP, 2000). Previous research has found that students may often differ in their ability to fluently rea…
Hongbing Zhang
The Chinese artist Gu Wenda’s installation art series United Nations and Odepus Refound were created after the artist moved to the USA in 1987. In these two art projects, Gu used the human hair and other bodily materials, which marked a big difference and dep…
Xu Yang
Short Retraction Notice The paper does not meet the standards of " Advances in Literary Study" . This article has been retracted to straighten the academic record. In making this decision the Editorial Board follows COPE's Retraction Guidelines . Aim is to pr…
Caiqiao Huo, Yajing Shi
The Return of the Native is one of Hardy’s famous novels about character and environment, which has shared a huge popularity since it is published in China. This paper aims to analyze the inevitability of Eustacia’s tragedy. It analyzes the deep reasons of th…
Laz Chinedu Ogenyi
It is commonly believed that Nigerian students perform very poorly in the English language. Many reasons adduced to be the causative variables for students’ poor performance in the English language are located away from the students themselves. What the above…
Guohui Niu, Xiang Guo
The Solitary Reaper is one of William Wordsworth’s representatives which portrays an Irish girl working and singing solitarily in a field. This poem fully reflects the loneliness of the poet. He uses varying wording and phrasing, the lonely image of the reape…
Qin Li, Lili Zheng
The Great Gatsby is the masterpiece of Fitzgerald, the representative of “Jazz Age”. This paper studies the greatness of Gatsby from three aspects: Gatsby’s struggle against fate focusing on his love and career, Gatsby’s spirit of self-discipline and his spir…
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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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Manuscripts must be original and not under consideration elsewhere. Submit in Microsoft Word or LaTeX with figures at 300 dpi minimum. Structure research articles as Abstract, Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, and References.
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