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After reading a certain children’s classic with her primary school pupils, one teacher【省略】used to ask them to draw pictures to illustrate the story. She was impressed by the variety
and the imagination the children showed. Although they had all read the same text, no twodrawings were alike, as each child interpreted the story in a unique and individual way.
Then Disney produced an animated cartoon version of the book. From then on every
picture the children produced was a copy of the Disney image.
A picture is worth a thousand words, we are told, and in some cases it may be. In
practical matters, such as when following instructions, illustrations can be of great help. A
television documentary or a collection of photographs will let us understand conditions oflife in another country, or show us the glories of its architecture.
With works of literature the question is a little different. If we have some idea of thescenery and setting before we actually read the book, reality enhances our enjoyment. But
if we first form our own mental picture of the places and characters, then seeing the reality
will destroy that picture, for better or for worse.
As a child, I was very fond of the Anne of Green Gables series of books. I could clearly
see in my mind’s eye every place and person mentioned, and loved them as old friends.
Forty years later I saw a television series of Anne. I wish I had not. The scenes wereundoubtedly authentic, the places the author had had in mind, but they were not the places
I had imagined. Even less did the actors match my idea of the characters in the books. The
truly sad thing, though, for me was that from then on I could no longer recapture my own
picture of Avonlea and its inhabitants.
There is no going back. We cannot turn back the clock and retrieve the vision ourimagination originally created. Once gone, it is gone for ever.
The late Arthur Waley, the original translator into English of The Tale of Genji and ofThe Pillow Book, always refused to visit Japan, despite many invitations to do so. His
reason, as he explained, was that he had his own vision of Heian Japan, which he did notwish to have destroyed by the sight of the modern country. On reflection, I think he wasright. These two ancient authors had created for him their own landscape, in which paved
roads and telephone poles, among other things, had no part.
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The landscape of the imagination has a validity beyond the banal scene of the everyday【省略】world. The clearer it is, the greater the writer’s powers of evocation.
As for those primary school pupils, I feel sorry for them. In the blanketing of their world
by a standardised commercial image, they have been deprived of one of the great pleasuresof reading, the freedom to use and to develop their own imagination. I can only hope thatsomehow they will one day be compensated for this.
(From‘24

The Landscape of Imagination’ in The Daffodil Tree: Aspects of Culture &Language, by M. Heather Kotake, 1997, Shohakusha)

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Anne of Green Gables：『赤毛のアン』

banal：平凡なevocation：想像力豊かな芸術的な描写－英文 ４－３－

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