A literary gerontology : the self-imposition of narratives and the individual negotiation of the aging process.

• Main Author: Tung, Colin Zhi Shing.
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/52220
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

There is a dominating discourse on the eroding effects of time and aging on identity that, in the process, dehumanises the elderly. I seek to show how this erosion takes place in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, John Banville’s The Infinities, and Michael Cunningham’s By Ni...