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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…
Juncheng Zhao
This essay argues that Gao Xingjian’s Soul Mountain mobilizes its doubled address (“I/you”) to stage “she” as an experimental construct through which femininity is performed rather than defined. Bringing Gao’s scenes into conversation with Freud’s account of…
Khaled Besbes
This paper addresses the themes of connection and disconnection in Jericho Brown’s poetry, with a special emphasis on the aporia of belonging. Brown’s poems reflect a dialectic of emotions oscillating between the profound sense of connection to origins and th…
Chang Ge
This paper examines Olaus Magnus’s 1539 Carta Marina and the purpose of its vivid depictions of sea monsters in the Norwegian Sea, arguing that their mission extends beyond merely representing maritime dangers. While earlier scholarship, such as that of Chet…
Karl-Erik Andersson
In the Calypso episode of Ulysses , James Joyce transforms the myth of Calypso into the daily routines of Leopold Bloom’s domestic life, treating the Homeric material with irony and distance. In contrast, Eyvind Johnson’s Strändernas svall focuses on the myth…
Lare Damlègue
The objective of this article is to analyse how Sefi Atta constructs feminist philosophy and uses narrative strategies to deconstruct patriarchal legacies and gender constructs that militate against women’s emancipation and welfare in Everything Good Will Com…
Anika Elema
This paper challenges traditional interpretations of Nikolai Gogol’s The Nose as a political or socio-economic metaphor. Instead, it argues that the story should be understood and appreciated as a purely absurdist work—one that does not seek to convey hidden…
Michelle Monrose
This study examines the eco-poetic dimension of the story The Old Slave and the Hound by Patrick Chamoiseau. This text-pretext explores the profound relationship between nature and literature and examines how, alongside the Old Slave, the Master, and the Mast…
Abdallah Tarabieh
This comparative study aims to shed light on the growth and intensification of city lamentations in Andalusia in the shadow of events and persecutions that occurred. Many poets attribute the bitter fate of the residents and acts of destruction and ruin as pun…
Arjun Ram
This paper argues that peace—whether civic or geopolitical—is financed by sacrifice and accrues interest in memory. Through a paired close reading of Sophocles’ Antigone and Yusef Komunyakaa’s “Facing It”, we theorize a three-stage economy of sacrifice: the f…
Olga Hel-Bongo
This article examines biodiversity in Caribbean literary texts in terms of the subject’s interaction with its environment. Using evocations of island and urban landscapes from Cahier d ’ un retour au pays natal , Moi laminaire , Le bar des Amériques and Les v…
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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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