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Ageing, Narrative and Identity

New Qualitative Social Research

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  • © 2013

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Introduction

  2. Contexts and Methodologies

  3. Mass Observation and Ageing

  4. Readers, Writers and Ageing

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This book outlines the methodology and results of the Fiction and the Cultural Mediation of Ageing Project, led by a research team from Brunel University, UK. It investigates how older people resist stereotypical cultural representations of ageing and demonstrates the importance of narrative understanding to social agency.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Brunel University, UK

    Nick Hubble, Philip Tew

About the authors

Nick Hubble is Head of English at Brunel University, UK.

Philip Tew is Professor of English and Director of the Brunel Centre for Contemporary Writing at Brunel University, UK.

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