Ageing, narrative and identity : new qualitative social research /

"Ageing, Narrative and Identity: New Qualitative Social Research outlines the methodology and results of the Fiction and the Cultural Mediation of Ageing Project (FCMAP), led by a research team from Brunel University, UK. In investigating how older people resist stereotypical cultural represent...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hubble, Nick, 1965-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Tew, Philip
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
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  • PART I: CONTEXTS AND METHODOLOGIES
  • 1. The Fiction and the Cultural Mediation of Ageing Project (FCMAP)
  • 2. Everyday Life, Self-narrative and Identity
  • PART II: MASS OBSERVATION AND AGEING
  • 3. Mass Observation and the University of the Third Age
  • 4. Understanding Third and Fourth Age Subjectivity from Mass Observation Responses
  • 5. Responses to the Mass Observation Ageing Directives: Five Case Studies
  • PART III: READERS, WRITERS AND AGEING
  • 6. Representations of Ageing in Post-war British Fiction
  • 7. The Reading Diaries: Four Case Studies
  • 8. The Role of Narrative Representation and Exchange in How Older People Understand Ageing
  • 9. The Specific Attitudes of Writers to Ageing.