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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…
Fang Liu, Wenqing Xu, 1 1
Tai Chinese writer Mengli transformed her trauma experienced in early life into creative literary works, crafting vivid and compelling characters through unique artistic forms of essay writing. Characters not only deeply evoking powerful emotional responses t…
Jin Zhang, Jinyu Liu
As a scholar, Yan Fu is best known for his translations of “Eight Famous Works”. As a naval instructor, Yan Fu studied in England, gaining a profound understanding of global affairs and the significance of sea power. Yan Fu’s translations not only introduced…
Annalyse Granowski
Recent scholarship points to the importance of multimodal media in learning environments, such as instructive How-To articles. This article examines how GIFs present in the YouTube Help Center play a role in effective technical communication with their liveli…
Abdallah Ibraheem Tarabieh
I intend to examine motifs and subjects that were an integral part of poetry that moved between the sacred and the secular. The article focuses on specific Muslim and Jewish poets, who are representative of the period, poets who referred to abstinence (الزهدي…
Mohammad Sherfudeen Chagla
Revolts lead to changes irrespective of good or bad. It is universal and fights against the basic conventions and traditions. Such rebellions manifest explicitly through arts, culture and literature. Samuel Beckett’s play Waiting for Godot ( WFG ) offers mult…
Susi Xuan, Lihui Liu
Christopher Marlowe’s Edward II employs maritime imagery to interrogate Elizabethan anxieties over permeable borders and fragile sovereignty. The sea, intrinsically tied to Gaveston and Isabella, functions as both a destabilizing force and a geopolitical meta…
Annalyse Granowski
This article uses Foucauldian discourse analysis to explore ideologies on multimodal media in first-year composition courses compared to multimedia composition practices in the workplace. In doing so, it highlights intersecting discourses at play, with the be…
Albrecht Classen
This paper examines the concept of intertextuality in light of the interrelationship of Der Stricker’s early-thirteenth-century Middle High German Pfaffe Amîs and Hermann Bote’s Early Modern German Till Eulenspiegel , first printed in 1510/1511. Medieval pers…
Cairang Wangmu
Daisy Buchanan, the central female figure in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s seminal novel The Great Gatsby , has been traditionally characterized by critics and admirers alike as a superficial, vulgar, and materialistic individual. However, this pervasive portrayal fa…
Jean Edouard
Reality pedagogy draws on a culturally relevant framework to understand students’ realities in the communities. Thus, the paper discusses For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood… and the Rest of Y’all Too by Christopher Emdin, focusing on reality pedagogy as a…
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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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