Ruthellen Josselson
List of John Benjamins publications in which Ruthellen Josselson is involved.
2009 Reflections on The Narrative Study of Lives Narrative Inquiry 19:1, pp. 183–198 | Article
2007 Narrative research and the challenge of accumulating knowledge Narrative – State of the Art, Bamberg, Michael (ed.), pp. 7–15 | Article
Narrative research has produced an array of richly-detailed expositions of life as lived, well-interpreted studies full of nuance and insight that befit the complexity of human lives. This paper inquires into the necessity and possibilities of amalgamation of knowledge obtained through narrative… read more
2006 Narrative research and the challenge of accumulating knowledge Narrative – State of the Art, Bamberg, Michael (ed.), pp. 3–10 | Article
Narrative research has produced an array of richly-detailed expositions of life as lived, well-interpreted studies full of nuance and insight that befit the complexity of human lives. This paper inquires into the necessity and possibilities of amalgamation of knowledge obtained through narrative… read more
2004 The hermeneutics of faith and the hermeneutics of suspicion Narrative Inquiry 14:1, pp. 1–28 | Article
Ricoeur distinguishes between two forms of hermeneutics: a hermeneutics of faith which aims to restore meaning to a text and a hermeneutics of suspicion which attempts to decode meanings that are disguised. In this paper, his distinction is applied to interpretive stances in narrative research.… read more