Travers, PL (English spelling)

Japanese: Travers,P.L.(英語表記)TraversPL
Travers, PL (English spelling)

...AA Milne's Winnie the Pooh (1926) broke new ground, and JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit (1937) and The Lord of the Rings (1954-55) perfected fairy tales. CS Lewis dealt with the issue of good and evil in his seven stories about the fictional country of Narnia (The Chronicles of Narnia, 1950-56), PL Travers's Mary Poppins five-part series (1934-82) created a new witch with humor, and M. Norton also depicted a miniature world of dwarves who lived by borrowing things from humans in a five-part series (1952-82). Fantasy is the essence of British children's literature, and the heyday of the genre continued in the 1950s and 1960s with masterpieces such as P. Pearce's Tom in the Midnight Garden (1958), LM Boston's Green Knowe series (1954-76), R. Hoban's The Adventures of the Mouse and His Son (1967), A. Garner's works based on Welsh legends (1960-), and W. Mayne's The Boy Drummer Who Disappeared into the Earth (1966).

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Japanese:

…さらにA.A.ミルンの《クマのプーさん》(1926)が新領域をひらき,J.R.R.トールキンの《ホビットの冒険》(1937),《指輪物語》(1954‐55)は妖精物語を大成する。C.S.ルイスが架空の国ナルニアの7部の物語(《ナルニア国ものがたり》1950‐56)で善悪の問題を取り扱い,トラバーズP.L.Traversの〈メリー(メアリー)・ポピンズ〉5部作(1934‐82)はユーモアをこめて新しい魔女をつくり出し,ノートンM.Nortonも人間から物を借りてくらす小人たちのミニアチュア世界を5部作(1952‐82)で描いてみせた。 ファンタジーはイギリス児童文学の真骨頂というべく,その後もピアスP.Pearce《トムは真夜中の庭で》(1958)やボストンL.M.Bostonの〈グリーン・ノウ〉(1954‐76)の連作,ホーバンR.Hobanの《親子ネズミの冒険》(1967),ガーナーA.Garnerのウェールズ伝説に根ざした諸作(1960‐),メーンW.Mayneの《地に消える少年鼓手》(1966)などの秀作が生まれ,1950年代から60年代の隆盛期を現出させた。…

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