@article{oai:dwcla.repo.nii.ac.jp:00002123,
 author = {風間, 末起子 and KAZAMA, Makiko},
 journal = {同志社女子大学大学院文学研究科紀要, Papers in Language, Literature, and Culture : Graduate School of Literary Studies, Doshisha Women's College of Liberal Arts},
 month = {Mar},
 note = {application/pdf, AA11551704-20190329-41, The aim of this article is to examine the vision of twenty-first-century senescence contained in Margaret Drabble’s latest novel, The Dark Flood Rises（2016）, in which many characters, including the female protagonist Fran Stubbs, are in their seventies or eighties.
Elderly characters in literature have been mostly constrained within certain roles. They represent a bridge between the past and present, wisdom to balance the innovative with the
old-fashioned, and an incentive for younger people to return to their hometowns. Great-aunt Drusilla and Mrs. Edlin in Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure（1895）are two characters
who perform these vital roles.
However, owing to increased longevity, old people in the twenty-first century, at least in developed countries, must consider not only the past and present but also their future or “late life.”Though for some fortunate few, aging may be a“fascinating journey into the unknown”（Dark Flood, 20）, late life can at the same time be an uncertain, indeterminate sphere linked with inhuman devices to postpone death, Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia, and the sudden ending or“halt”（Dark Flood, 194）．
This article will investigate the vision of senescence reached by Fran Stubbs, using key phrases―sequence and continuation, severing the past, staircase or ladder, and standstill―as
clues to the puzzle of how to approach old age.},
 pages = {41--59},
 title = {老いを見つめて：ドラブルのThe Dark Flood Rises（2016）一考察},
 volume = {19},
 year = {2019},
 yomi = {カザマ, マキコ}
}