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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…
Irina Chirica
The paper focuses on various aspects of symbolic and sacred space in the novel Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko, discussing the following issues: the Native American versus the Anglo-American attitude towards the land, symbolic geography as a map of the hero’s…
Zacchaeus Zulu
Sins and Taboos is an analysis of what taboos are, and how taboos relate to sins (as viewed through the lens of the Tonga speech community) in Southern Zambia. The Western definition of Taboos seems inadequate when compared with Tonga’s definition. Generally…
Shuxian Li
Virginia Woolf, one of the most popular female writers of the early twentieth century, portrays women expressing their dissatisfaction with society and their own quests for self-redemption in diverse ways. Unlike traditional stream-of-consciousness novels, Wo…
Maria Aurora Gratela Caballero
This paper critically investigated the origins and cultural roots of the Ibalong, a renowned Bikolano epic, questioning its classification as an indigenous narrative or a product of Spanish influence. Through a comprehensive review of related literature, the…
Chagla Sherfudeen
Carnivals in pre-independence India had a medley of episodes—sometimes fascinating and sometimes marred by violence as such hostile incidents were mostly due to the feudalistic fabric that it worn. British ruled India presented some respite. Postcolonial Indi…
Derya Demirtas
Zadie Smith’s NW experimental and fragmented form interplays with the idea of meaning throughout the text. As a reader, it is hard not to draw upon comparisons to the self when reading NW . The act of reading NW , then, becomes a performance in which I, as a…
Murshudova Ulduz Bashir, 1 1
Azerbaijan Oghuz-Turk and North American Indian have very different cultures, and their vastly dissimilar geographical distances prevented them from meeting. However, during a comparative examination, it is worth noting that in both cultures, people are consi…
Karl-Erik Andersson
Michel de Montaigne, the originator and unrivaled master of the essay, has many admirers who view him as a skeptic. This article discusses the nature of Montaigne’s skepticism, how skepticism is reflected in his life and work, and how this could be reconciled…
Karl-Erik Andersson
Within the Weimar Republic and its new democratic constitution, an intense cultural activity flourished with Berlin as the intellectual centre. Original ideas or currents of thought were created in this environment, not least within theatre and architecture.…
Jingyuan Yu
This paper examines the influential role of Japanese colonial education in shaping the ideological landscape of Koreans from 1911 to 1945. It argues that this influence was primarily exerted through the dissemination of Japanese primary school textbooks in th…
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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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