@article{oai:dwcla.repo.nii.ac.jp:00001869,
 author = {風間, 末起子 and KAZAMA, Makiko},
 journal = {Asphodel},
 month = {Jul},
 note = {application/pdf, AN00000289-20200727-14, The term “community” is one of the key concepts in comprehending all the novels by Margaret Drabble (1939- ). The themes of the seventh novel, The Realms of Gold (1975), above all, emphasize and affirm the significance of community, continuity, and human ties.
Although the “realms” cited from the first line in John Keatsʼ brilliant sonnet “On First Looking into Chapmanʼs Homer” can be construed as being associated with intellectual and imaginary travel searching for something precious and Utopian, at the same time, the “realms,” for the two major female characters, Frances Wingate and Janet Bird, indicate the social frame used to allot men and women to their place in the human community, such as the married couple,
family, and relatives. These social frames can be very often burdensome and tangled for those characters owing to suffocative restraint and conflict, though they realize that it can be a necessary social unit for most men and women.
However ambivalent the feelings of her characters might be, and however intractable her charactersʼ family problems might be, Drabble never tries to demolish the family institution ; rather, she attempts to reconsider and “reconstruct” the family construction, not to deconstruct it. Her major characters see the realms of family as not solid or definite, but fluid and uncertain, and they perceive that it has the potential for changing, developing, and transforming with human wisdom, effort, and imagination. In this article, I would like to examine how the writer reconstructs “the realms of the gold” through illustrating the everyday rites and family ties, such as a party, a funeral, and the travel into the past to visit the home and hometown of relatives., 論文},
 pages = {14--35},
 title = {「黄金の国」の再構築：ドラブルのThe Realms of Gold (1975) の考察},
 volume = {55},
 year = {2020},
 yomi = {カザマ, マキコ}
}