TY - JOUR
TI - The Green Gables Utopia. On the Novel by Lucy Maud Montgomery
AU - Oczko, Piotr
TI - The Green Gables Utopia. On the Novel by Lucy Maud Montgomery
AB - 
	This paper deals with the issue of “utopianism” in L.M. Montgomery’s novel Anne of Green Gables(1908), a book which has been translated into Polish many times and has been shaping the worldview and mentality of Polish female readers for over a century. This utopianism is here presented in three separate approaches. Firstly, the study investigates the “translatological utopianism” of the first translation of the novel (by R. Bernstein, published in 1911), which, as a result of the linguistic and stylistic decisions of the translator, has been significantly naturalised and domesticised, as well as adapted to the multiple (genological, social, and cultural) expectations and conceptions of the Polish implied audience. Secondly, attention was drawn to the fact that Avonlea as presented in the novel is a kind of social “matriarchal utopia”, emphasising the issues of women’s solidarity, responsibility, and education, at the same time strongly referring to the Arcadian trend in utopian literature. Thirdly, it was suggested that in Moira Walley-Beckett’s film adaptation Anne of Green Gables (Anne with an E, 2017-2018), the reading “between the lines” of Montgomery’s novel and the application of the hermeneutics of suspicion by the screenwriter made the idyllic utopia of the original resemble a dystopia. 
VL - 2019
IS - Issue 3 (41) 2019: World Literature
PY - 2019
SN - 1897-1962
C1 - 2084-395X
SP - 35
EP - 46
DO - 10.4467/2084395XWI.19.017.11458
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/wieloglos/article/the-green-gables-utopia-on-the-novel-by-lucy-maud-montgomery
KW - Lucy Maud Montgomery
KW - Anne of Green Gables
KW - Canadian literature
KW - feministic interpretations of Anne of Green Gables
KW - film adaptations of Anne of Green Gables