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This book offers new critical approaches for the study of
adaptations, abridgments, translations, parodies, and mash-ups that
occur internationally in contemporary children's culture. It
follows recent shifts in adaptation studies that call for a move
beyond fidelity criticism, a paradigm that measures the success of
an adaptation by the level of fidelity to the "original" text,
toward a methodology that considers the adaptation to be always
already in conversation with the adapted text. This book visits
children's literature and culture in order to consider the generic,
pedagogical, and ideological underpinnings that drive both the
process and the product. Focusing on novels as well as folktales,
films, graphic novels, and anime, the authors consider the
challenges inherent in transforming the work of authors such as
William Shakespeare, Charles Perrault, L.M. Montgomery, Laura
Ingalls Wilder, and A.A. Milne into new forms that are palatable
for later audiences particularly when-for perceived ideological or
political reasons-the textual transformation is not only
unavoidable but entirely necessary. Contributors consider the
challenges inherent in transforming stories and characters from one
type of text to another, across genres, languages, and time,
offering a range of new models that will inform future scholarship.
This book offers new critical approaches for the study of
adaptations, abridgments, translations, parodies, and mash-ups that
occur internationally in contemporary children s culture. It
follows recent shifts in adaptation studies that call for a move
beyond fidelity criticism, a paradigm that measures the success of
an adaptation by the level of fidelity to the "original" text,
toward a methodology that considers the adaptation to be always
already in conversation with the adapted text. This book visits
children s literature and culture in order to consider the generic,
pedagogical, and ideological underpinnings that drive both the
process and the product. Focusing on novels as well as folktales,
films, graphic novels, and anime, the authors consider the
challenges inherent in transforming the work of authors such as
William Shakespeare, Charles Perrault, L.M. Montgomery, Laura
Ingalls Wilder, and A.A. Milne into new forms that are palatable
for later audiences particularly when for perceived ideological or
political reasons the textual transformation is not only
unavoidable but entirely necessary. Contributors consider the
challenges inherent in transforming stories and characters from one
type of text to another, across genres, languages, and time,
offering a range of new models that will inform future
scholarship.
Now available in paperback, The L.M. Montgomery Reader assembles
rediscovered primary material on one of Canada's most enduringly
popular authors, spanning the entirety of her high-profile career
and the years since her death. The first volume, A Life in Print,
focuses specifically on Montgomery's role as a public celebrity and
author of the resoundingly successful Anne of Green Gables (1908).
The selections give a strong impression of Montgomery as a writer
and cultural critic as she discusses a range of topics with wit,
wisdom, and humour, including the natural landscape of Prince
Edward Island, her wide readership, anxieties about modernity, and
the continued relevance of "old ideals." These essays and
interviews, joined by a number of additional pieces that discuss
her work's literary and cultural value in relation to an emerging
canon of Canadian literature, make up nearly one hundred selections
in all. Each volume in The L.M. Montgomery Reader is accompanied by
an extensive introduction and detailed commentary by leading
Montgomery scholar Benjamin Lefebvre that traces the interplay
between the author and the critic, as well as between the private
and the public Montgomery.
Now available in paperback, The L.M. Montgomery Reader assembles
rediscovered primary material on one of Canada's most enduringly
popular authors, spanning the entirety of her high-profile career
and the years since her death. Volume Three: A Legacy in Review
examines a long overlooked portion of Montgomery's critical
reception: reviews of her books. Although Montgomery downplayed the
impact that reviews had on her writing career, claiming to be
amused and tolerant of reviewers' contradictory opinions about her
work, she nevertheless cared enough to keep a large percentage of
them in scrapbooks as an archive of her career. This volume
presents more than four hundred reviews from eight countries that
raise questions about and offer reflections on gender, genre,
setting, character, audience, and nationalism, much of which
anticipated the scholarship that has thrived in the last four
decades. Each volume in The L.M. Montgomery Reader is accompanied
by an extensive introduction and detailed commentary by leading
Montgomery scholar Benjamin Lefebvre that traces the interplay
between the author and the critic, as well as between the private
and the public Montgomery.
Now available in paperback, The L.M. Montgomery Reader assembles
rediscovered primary material on one of Canada's most enduringly
popular authors, spanning the entirety of her high-profile career
and the years since her death. The second volume, A Critical
Heritage, narrates the development of L.M. Montgomery's critical
reputation in the years since her death. It traces milestones and
turning points such as adaptations for stage and screen, posthumous
publications, and the development of Montgomery Studies as a
scholarly field. The introduction also considers Montgomery's
publishing history in Canada, the United States, and the United
Kingdom at a time when her work remained in print not because it
was considered part of a university canon of literature, but simply
due to the continued interest of readers. Each volume in The L.M.
Montgomery Reader is accompanied by an extensive introduction and
detailed commentary by leading Montgomery scholar Benjamin Lefebvre
that traces the interplay between the author and the critic, as
well as between the private and the public Montgomery.
In this collection, the authors report on the pretreatment methods
for waste activated sludge based on pulsed electric field and
corona discharge techniques. The effects of pulse magnitude,
frequency, temperature and pretreatment time are demonstrated on
the basis of cell membrane electroporation. The influence of
voltage polarity, frequency, magnitude, treating time and
temperature has also been demonstrated. A description of
fundamental techniques in molecular biology for the analysis of the
microbiota of activated sludge is provided. Activated sludge is a
heterogeneous system of organisms, organic and inorganic material,
and therefore giving a specific protocol for each molecular
technique would be imprudent. The authors go on to discuss the
Monod model, which provides a functional relationship between
specific growth rate and substrate concentration in the bulk.
Important research efforts dedicated to adequate use of the Monod
model are presented, consolidating knowledge from activated sludge
and biofilm modelling, identifying misdirections, and setting
parameters for further research. In one study, different microwave
power outputs and times were optimised for sludge solubilisation
without evaporation loss in waste activated sludge from two
different sources. The variable effects of pre-treatments on
extracellular polymeric substances fraction, cellular oxidative
stress and solubilisation of both sludges were evaluated to
understand the impact of sludge complexity. The penultimate chapter
examines how toxic carbon sources can cause higher residual
effluent dissolved organic carbon than easily biodegraded carbon
sources in the activated sludge process. Based on the variations of
chemical components of activated sludge, mainly intracellular
storage materials, extracellular polymeric substances and soluble
microbial products, the performance and mechanism of toxic carbon
on the activated sludge process can be clarified. The purpose of
the final study is to research the supplementation of different
concentrations of substrate on the degradation rate of xenobiotics,
and to determine the optimal concentrations of auxiliary substrates
that are most beneficial. The results show that sugar and peptone
can affect 2,4-D degradation rate by several different degrees at
different concentrations.
Although L.M. Montgomery (1874-1942) is best remembered for the
twenty-two book-length works of fiction that she published in her
lifetime, from Anne of Green Gables (1908) to Anne of Ingleside
(1939), she also contributed some five hundred short stories and
serials to a wide range of North American and British periodicals
from 1895 to 1940. While most of these stories demonstrate her
ability to produce material that would fit the mainstream
periodical fiction market as it evolved across almost half a
century, many of them also contain early incarnations of
characters, storylines, conversations, and settings that she would
rework for inclusion in her novels and collections of linked short
stories. In Twice upon a Time, the third volume in The L.M.
Montgomery Library, Benjamin Lefebvre collects and discusses over
two dozen stories from across Montgomery's career as a short
fiction writer, many of them available in book form for the first
time. The volume offers a rare glimpse into Montgomery's creative
process in adapting her periodical work for her books, which
continue to fascinate readers all over the world.
Years before she published her internationally celebrated first
novel, Anne of Green Gables, L.M. Montgomery (1874-1942) started
contributing short works to periodicals across North America. While
these works consisted primarily of poems and short stories, she
also experimented with a wider range of forms, particularly during
the early years of her career, at which point she tested out
several authorial identities before settling on the professional
moniker "L.M. Montgomery." A Name for Herself: Selected Writings,
1891-1917 is the first in a series of volumes collecting
Montgomery's extensive contributions to periodicals. Leading
Montgomery scholar Benjamin Lefebvre discusses these so-called
miscellaneous pieces in relation to the works of English-speaking
women writers who preceded her and the strategies they used to
succeed, including the decision to publish under gender-neutral
signatures. Among the highlights of the volume are Montgomery's
contributions to student periodicals, a weekly newspaper column
entitled "Around the Table," a long-lost story narrated first by a
woman trapped in an unhappy marriage and then by the man she wishes
she had married instead, and a new edition of her 1917 celebrity
memoir, "The Alpine Path." Drawing fascinating links to
Montgomery's life writing, career, and fiction, this volume will
offer scholars and readers alike an intriguing new look at the work
of Canada's most enduringly popular author.
The L.M. Montgomery Reader assembles significant rediscovered
primary material on one of Canada's most enduringly popular authors
throughout her high-profile career and after her death. Each of its
three volumes gathers pieces published all over the world to set
the stage for a much-needed reassessment of Montgomery's literary
reputation. Much of the material is freshly unearthed from archives
and digital collections and has never before been published in book
form. The selections appearing in this first volume focus on
Montgomery's role as a public celebrity and author of the
resoundingly successful Anne of Green Gables (1908). They give a
strong impression of her as a writer and cultural critic as she
discusses a range of topics with wit, wisdom, and humour, including
the natural landscape of Prince Edward Island, her wide readership,
anxieties about modernity, and the continued relevance of "old
ideals." These essays and interviews, joined by a number of
additional pieces that discuss her work's literary and cultural
value in relation to an emerging canon of Canadian literature, make
up nearly one hundred selections in all. Each volume is accompanied
by an extensive introduction and detailed commentary by leading
Montgomery scholar Benjamin Lefebvre that trace the interplay
between the author and the critic, as well as between the private
and the public Montgomery. This volume - and the Reader as a whole
- adds tremendously to our understanding and appreciation of
Montgomery's legacy as a Canadian author and as a literary
celebrity both during and beyond her lifetime.
Celebrated as a novelist and made famous by her novel Anne of Green
Gables and its sequels, L.M. Montgomery (1874-1942) is far less
known for also writing and publishing hundreds of poems over a
period of half a century.Although this output included a chapbook
and a full-length collection in which she presented herself
primarily as a nature poet, most of her poems appeared in
periodicals, including women's magazines, farm papers, faith-based
periodicals, daily and weekly newspapers, and magazines for
children. As a shrewd businesswoman, she learned to find the
balance between literary quality and commercial saleability and
continued to publish poetry even though it paid less than short
fiction. A World of Songs: Selected Poems, 1894-1921, the second
volume in The L.M. Montgomery Library, gathers a selection of fifty
poems originally published across a twenty-five-year period.
Benjamin Lefebvre organizes this work within the context of
Montgomery's life and career, claiming her not only as a nature
poet but also as the author of a wider range of "songs": of place,
of memory, of lamentation, of war, of land and sea, of death, and
of love. Many of these poems echo motifs that readers of
Montgomery's novels will recognize, and many more explore
surprising perspectives through the use of male speakers. These
poems offer today's readers a new facet of the career of Canada's
most enduringly popular author.
Although L.M. Montgomery (1874-1942) is best remembered for the
twenty-two book-length works of fiction that she published in her
lifetime, from Anne of Green Gables (1908) to Anne of Ingleside
(1939), she also contributed some five hundred short stories and
serials to a wide range of North American and British periodicals
from 1895 to 1940. While most of these stories demonstrate her
ability to produce material that would fit the mainstream
periodical fiction market as it evolved across almost half a
century, many of them also contain early incarnations of
characters, storylines, conversations, and settings that she would
rework for inclusion in her novels and collections of linked short
stories. In Twice upon a Time, the third volume in The L.M.
Montgomery Library, Benjamin Lefebvre collects and discusses over
two dozen stories from across Montgomery's career as a short
fiction writer, many of them available in book form for the first
time. The volume offers a rare glimpse into Montgomery's creative
process in adapting her periodical work for her books, which
continue to fascinate readers all over the world.
Celebrated as a novelist and made famous by her novel Anne of Green
Gables and its sequels, L.M. Montgomery (1874-1942) is far less
known for also writing and publishing hundreds of poems over a
period of half a century.Although this output included a chapbook
and a full-length collection in which she presented herself
primarily as a nature poet, most of her poems appeared in
periodicals, including women's magazines, farm papers, faith-based
periodicals, daily and weekly newspapers, and magazines for
children. As a shrewd businesswoman, she learned to find the
balance between literary quality and commercial saleability and
continued to publish poetry even though it paid less than short
fiction. A World of Songs: Selected Poems, 1894-1921, the second
volume in The L.M. Montgomery Library, gathers a selection of fifty
poems originally published across a twenty-five-year period.
Benjamin Lefebvre organizes this work within the context of
Montgomery's life and career, claiming her not only as a nature
poet but also as the author of a wider range of "songs": of place,
of memory, of lamentation, of war, of land and sea, of death, and
of love. Many of these poems echo motifs that readers of
Montgomery's novels will recognize, and many more explore
surprising perspectives through the use of male speakers. These
poems offer today's readers a new facet of the career of Canada's
most enduringly popular author.
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