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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…
Wenjing Lu
A favourite literary work of Lu Xun, Kong Yiji has received much attention over the years. The novel profoundly depicts and presents the miserable, embarrassed life and mental state of an old-fashioned Chinese intellectual, further criticizes the traditional…
Alexander Chih-Yuan Mai
Even though Vanessa received a lukewarm reception at its European premier in 1958 and the opus’ revival has been irregular, the opera still occupies a special place in the history of opera of the English language. Gian-Carlo Menotti and Samuel Barber’s operat…
Naounou Amédée
The main objective of this paper is to explore, by the means of cultural studies which is a theoretical approach avowedly and even radically interdisciplinary, the many instances in the novels of Louise Erdrich in which the author seems to be creating interco…
Ni Li
Most of the fictional and nonfictional works by Julian Barnes deal with identity-related memory. By raking up the theme of memory, we are led to some interesting discoveries about the author’s persistence in his postmodernist literary investigation into the n…
Zaakira Sadrud-Din
bell hooks was a leader in the literary world who was unbashful in expressing her affection for the upliftment of African Americans in the United States. Majority of her works focus on the idea of white supremacy and how it has caused impoverishment and degra…
Mahdia Abarchah
According to the psychoanalyst Carl Gustav Jung, literature, like dreams and myths, could be an outlet for the unconscious drives—personal and collective. William Blake’s “A Poison Tree” is a case in point. The incidents in the poem, aesthetically, uncover a…
Maria Aurora Gratela-Caballero
Despite technological advances in communication methods and information dissemination, it is vital to understand the impact of oral literature on a region’s cultural diversity. Transferring knowledge through oral literature in diverse details leads to complex…
Ying Chun
Joyce Carol Oates is an American author and recipient of many prestigious literary awards, including the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and the National Humanities Medal. One of her most famous novels is Them , which was first published in 1969. The…
Ying Meng
Metaphor is more often a way of thinking than a mere rhetorical device. To understand a metaphor requires an exploration into the process during which it is created, thus discovering how certain inter-connections between an object and the sign that it refers…
Rifat Binte Joynal
The present paper focuses on that men are also subjugated in patriarchal tradition side by side with women. In male chauvinist society, it is a common scene that male is the patriarch of the family. He should be the representative of the whole family and shou…
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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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