"The Shadow-Cage"におけるストーリーテラーとしてのPhilippa Pearce

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Philippa Pearce, still active in her eighties, is generally regarded as one of the representative authors of the 'Second Golden Age' in British children's literature. Pearce achieved her literary success as a writer for children quite early in her career by winning the Carnegie Medal for her second novel, Tom's Midnight Garden, a time fantasy published in 1958. Since then Pearce has continued to produce a wide range of works, from realism to fantasy, from novels to short stories, for nearly half a century, though she has never been classed as a prolific writer. This paper focuses on Pearce's ghost stories in the form of short stories. In order to explore this aspect of Pearce's writing, "The Shadow-Cage," one of the short stories included in The Shadow-Cage and Other Tales of the Supernatural (1977), will be analysed in terms of the structure of the story as well as the techniques used, in which Pearce's background as a storyteller in the sense of a person who tells stories to a group of children is distinct.
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