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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…
Ben Kudus Yussif, Daniel Okyere-Darko Nsowah
Due to the several years of misrepresentation and malignment by misogynist male writers, feminist writers have endeavored to reconstruct and redefine the identity of the African woman in African literature. African women’s writings can therefore be viewed as…
Jacques Barro
This article analyzes the manifestations of intertextuality and its pragmatic implications in some novels by Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio. It answers in particular the following questions: what illocutionary logics underlie the use of intertextual resources i…
Amada Alusine Kpaka
Forna’s Ancestor Stones is a feminist novel that seeks to rewrite the experiences of women in Africa in the feminist perspective. It also challenges the demeaning treatments and tendencies of the menfolk. Before today, women struggled to gain respect, recogni…
Gilda Nicheng Forbang-Looh
This paper focuses on John Nkemngong Nkengsasong’s Across the Mongolo and aims at analyzing the dehumanizing tendencies, resistance dynamics as well as rekindling of hope in the novel. It argues that though the world of the text seems gloomy for the Anglophon…
Victor Strandberg
During Eliot’s six-year pursuit of a doctorate in philosophy at Harvard, he was privately ridiculing such mentors as F. H. Bradley, Henri Bergson, Josiah Royce, and Irving Babbitt, most notably in his journal, The March Hare . The crucial issue was their prom…
Lulwa Al Khalifa
This article analyzes the profound role of education in expanding women’s choice, opportunity, and character growth. The novel Palace Walk (1956), which takes place before the 1919 Egyptian Revolution, and the novel Mor n ings in Jenin (2006), which spans twe…
Kaouther Hamadi, Jun She
In an era of globalization, world literature constitutes massive hybrid literary goods from different cultures as literature per se represents its own people’s heritage and identity traits. It offers a great reservoir of major literary works that actively con…
Rong Ma
In the novels, The Deep and Black-Eyed Wom e n , memories play an important role. They run through the main parts of the two novels and assume a pivotal role in revealing the characters’ identities, depicting their sufferings, and showcasing their choices. Ba…
Marco Túlio Ferreira dos Santos
This paper presents a critical analysis of a book written by Samuel Butler in 1872. The book is titled Erewhon , a fictitious society that serves as a satirical representation of British society and its ironies and absurdities. The methodology used is not typ…
John Harper
This paper analyzes Juan Rulfo’s short-story collection The Plain in Flames , first published in 1953, in terms of its presentation of characters’ striving for need satisfaction. It emphasizes the importance of small glimpses of hope that motivate disenfranch…
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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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