INTERKULTÚRNE ŠTÚDIÁ - MODERN COURSEBOOK OF CULTURAL STUDIES FOR PHILOLOGISTS & AUTHOR DATABASIS
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| (Illustration by Michala Lenčová) | (Illustration by Michala Lenčová) | |
| SUSANNA (STRICKLAND) MOODIE | LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY | |
| (1803-1885) | (1874-1942) | |
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Moodie (born in Suffolk, England, immigrated to Canada in 1832 with her husband; died in 1885), became classic for her immigrant series, especially for settlement narrative Roughing It in the Bush (1852) and its sequel, Life in the Clearings (1853). Later, she wrote Flora Lyndsay (1854).
[1] For extended biography see http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/ strickland_susanna_11E.html |
Montgomery (born in New London, Prince Edward Island), just like the juvenile character of Anne who she immortalized in her novels (Anne of Green Gables) was half- orphan,raised by step-parents. At the age of sixteen, she wrote the first of her 50 short stories. Later, she wrote twenty novels set on the Prince EdwardIsland. The most popular central characters of these are Anne and Emily. Montgomery also wrote many poems and essays. [1] For extended biography see https://www.lmmontgomery.ca/about/lmm/her-life |
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Anne of Green Gables: full text in: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/45/45-h/45-h.htm |
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| Poetry: The Joy of Little Things | ||
| Poetry: To my Enemy | ||
| LITERARY CRITICSM ON MONTGOMERY |
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| JAROSLAVA BLAŽKOVÁ | PETER BREINER | |
| (1933-2017) | (b. 1957) | |
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Blažková was born in Velké Meziříčí in 1933; however, in 1942, during the Protectorate of Bohemiaand Moravia, her mother moved to Bratislava to join her husband. Blažková immigrated to Canada in 1968 because ofthe Soviet invasion to Czechoslovakia; however, prior to that she had already entered the Czechoslovak literaryscene with her novels Nylon Moon (1961) and Lamb and Princess (1964) where she “ushered infeminist issues to therealm of Slovak literature (Otrísalová, p. 339).
Source: Javorčíková et. al. 2019. A Modern Coursebook of Cultural Studies for Philologists. |
Breiner, a writer, essayist, journalist and also entertainer and compositor Peter Breiner was born in 1957 in Humenné, Czechoslovakia. He immigrated to Canada in 1990. In 2007, he became a US resident and moved permanently to New York. Breiner was one of the authors of a popular talk show in Slovakia, attracting over 2 million viewers in a country with a population of 5.5 m. His books of letters from Canada, entitled Maple Leaves (1998) became one of national best-sellers ʺopening eyesʺ of many Slovak readers nostalgic for the Communist past; even though today, some of his views regarding minorities and women sound a bit dated. |
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| Garden of Earthly Delights (a short story) | Maple Leaves (extract from a book of memoirs) |
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| LITERARY CRITICISM ON BLAŽKOVÁ | LITERARY CRITICISM ON BREINER |