Documents of Life Revisited : Narrative and Biographical Methodology for a 21st Century Critical Humanism (Hardcover, New ed)

Introduction Documents of Life and Critical Humanism in a Narrative and Biographical Frame, Liz Stanley; Part I After the Posts: Reconceiving Methods and Methodologies; Chapter 1 Lies and Truths: Exploring the Lie as a Document of Life, Clair Morrow; Chapter 2 Critical Humanist Thoughts on the Burnett Archive of Working Class Autobiography: ‘Nobody wages war with Dostoevsky or Dickens’, Claire Lynch; Chapter 3 The Essential Subject? The Very Documented Life of Myra Hindley, Helen Pleasance; Chapter 4 Whites Writing: Letters and Documents of Life in a QLR Project, Liz Stanley; Part II On Tellings and Retellings: Analysing Stories, Audiences and Constructed Lives; Chapter 5 The Diarists’ Audience, Sally Fincher; Chapter 6 Someone Telling Something to Someone about Something? Stories in Olive Schreiner’s Letters and Nella Last’s Diary, Andrea Salter; Chapter 7 Between Diary and Memoir: Documenting a Life in Wartime Britain, Cate Watson; Chapter 8 Forgotten Memories? Silence, Reason, Truth and the Carnival, Heather Blenkinsop; Chapter 9 Dear Mrs President: Children’s Letters to the President of Finland as Documents of Life, Ulla-Maija Salo; Part III The Ordinary, Virtual, Untimely, Sacred: Critical Humanist Knowledge-Making; Chapter 10 Identifying The Quotidian in the Heterotopic Universe of Olive Schreiner’s Letters, Helen Dampier; Chapter 11 Documents of Life and the Undead: Online Postmortem Photographs and Critical Humanist Ethics, Sue Wise; Chapter 12 Writing Water: An Untimely Academic Novella, Mona Livholts; Chapter 13 Everything Speaks: A Multidimensional Approach to Researching the Lithuanian Jewish Past, Shivaun Woolfson; Part IV Stories and Storied Lives: A Manifesto; Chapter 14 A Manifesto for Social Stories, Ken Plummer;