{"title":"Revising the Japanese Translation of Anne of Green Gables: My Story","authors":"Yuko Matsumoto","doi":"10.32393/jlmms/2024.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32393/jlmms/2024.0008","url":null,"abstract":"Until 1993, when I translated Anne of Green Gables, there were only abridged and altered translations in Japan. I have identified four major reasons for the deletions and changes made in these translations. My unabridged translations of the entire Anne series with hundreds of annotations in each book are revising the understanding and appreciation of Montgomery’s works in Japan.","PeriodicalId":187237,"journal":{"name":"Journal of L.M. Montgomery Studies","volume":"28 25","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141340435","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Cat of One’s Own: The Woman Writer and the Feline Companion in Emily of New Moon","authors":"Daniela Janes","doi":"10.32393/jlmms/2024.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32393/jlmms/2024.0005","url":null,"abstract":"Using an animal studies lens, this essay analyzes the role of cats and kittens in Emily of New Moon and draws connections to the solitary path of the female writer. The literary representation of cats gives us a human-mediated view of animal experience and consciousness, inviting us to reflect on the kinds of stories that are told about animals.","PeriodicalId":187237,"journal":{"name":"Journal of L.M. Montgomery Studies","volume":" 30","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140212414","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Growing Up with Anne: A Chinese Adolescence","authors":"Yan Du","doi":"10.32393/jlmms/2024.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32393/jlmms/2024.0004","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores my encounter with Anne of Green Gables as an adolescent living in a coastal city in Southeast China. The character of Anne was a unique addition to my childhood repertoire of favourite heroines, as I gradually began getting to know the imaginative girl, first by reading the translations and then the original, unabridged versions. My private journey of reading the Anne books offers a lens through which to observe the publication, adaptation, and reception of L.M. Montgomery’s most famous work in China.","PeriodicalId":187237,"journal":{"name":"Journal of L.M. Montgomery Studies","volume":"44 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140085823","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tatiane Rodrigues Lopes dos Santos, Eliane Aparecida Galvão Ribeiro Ferreira
{"title":"The Reception of L.M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables in the Brazilian Context","authors":"Tatiane Rodrigues Lopes dos Santos, Eliane Aparecida Galvão Ribeiro Ferreira","doi":"10.32393/jlmms/2024.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32393/jlmms/2024.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Applying the theoretical contributions of the reception theories of Hans Robert Jauss, this short essay discusses the reception of L.M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables in the Brazilian context, reflecting on the reasons that this novel became popular and flourished in several translations and adaptations only recently; more specifically, the essay relates this to the growth of reading levels, a government initiative for public school libraries, and the television series adaptation Anne with an “E.”","PeriodicalId":187237,"journal":{"name":"Journal of L.M. Montgomery Studies","volume":"45 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139850186","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tatiane Rodrigues Lopes dos Santos, Eliane Aparecida Galvão Ribeiro Ferreira
{"title":"The Reception of L.M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables in the Brazilian Context","authors":"Tatiane Rodrigues Lopes dos Santos, Eliane Aparecida Galvão Ribeiro Ferreira","doi":"10.32393/jlmms/2024.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32393/jlmms/2024.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Applying the theoretical contributions of the reception theories of Hans Robert Jauss, this short essay discusses the reception of L.M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables in the Brazilian context, reflecting on the reasons that this novel became popular and flourished in several translations and adaptations only recently; more specifically, the essay relates this to the growth of reading levels, a government initiative for public school libraries, and the television series adaptation Anne with an “E.”","PeriodicalId":187237,"journal":{"name":"Journal of L.M. Montgomery Studies","volume":" 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139790285","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Different Annes in Russia: Translation Stories from Post-Soviet Times","authors":"Irina Levchenko","doi":"10.32393/jlmms/2024.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32393/jlmms/2024.0002","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores the reasons for Anne of Green Gables’s late arrival in Russia and examines three Russian translations of the novel, showing how different attitudes toward children’s literature and conceptions about girls’ books, particularly in the Russian society and literary system, shaped translation and marketing strategies.","PeriodicalId":187237,"journal":{"name":"Journal of L.M. Montgomery Studies","volume":"89 21","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139593449","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“I Would Rather Lose Everything Else I Possess”: Love of Nature and L.M. Montgomery’s\u0000Intuitive Wellness Strategies, 1901-11","authors":"Sarah Conrad Gothie","doi":"10.32393/jlmms/2024.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32393/jlmms/2024.0001","url":null,"abstract":"L.M. Montgomery’s use of “rambles” to de-escalate depressive episodes and restore her mental wellness is well documented in the entries she made in her PEI journals while living in Cavendish and Halifax from 1901 to 1911. Modern-day research on forest bathing and seasonal affective disorder provides scientific explanations for why the time Montgomery spent in nature may have boosted her mental health during a pivotal period in her career, particularly during the winter of 1905 to 1906, when she was composing Anne of Green Gables.","PeriodicalId":187237,"journal":{"name":"Journal of L.M. Montgomery Studies","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139437953","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}