Fiction as Research Practice

Short Stories, Novellas, and Novels

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

Av Patricia Leavy

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The turn to fiction as a social research practice is a natural extension of what many researchers and writers have long been doing. Patricia Leavy, a widely published qualitative researcher and a novelist, explores the overlaps and intersections between these two ways of understanding and describing human experience. She demonstrates the validity of literary experimentation to the qualitative researcher and how to incorporate these practices into research projects. Five short stories and excerpts from novellas and novels show these methods in action. This book is an essential methodological introduction for those interested in studying or practicing arts-based research.

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Utgivningsdatum2013-04-15
Mått152 x 229 x 22 mm
Vikt635 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieDeveloping Qualitative Inquiry
Antal sidor316
FörlagLeft Coast Press Inc
ISBN9781611321531

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Patricia Leavy is an independent scholar, formerly associate professor and chairperson of the Sociology & Criminology Department and the founding director of the Gender Studies Program at Stonehill College in Easton, MA, USA. She is the author of Iconic Events: Media, Politics and Power in Retelling History (2007), Method Meets Art: Arts-Based Research Practice (2009), Oral History: Understanding Qualitative Research (2011), and Low-Fat Love (2011); coauthor of Feminist Research Practice: A Primer (2007) and The Practice of Qualitative Research (2d ed. 2010); and co-editor of Hybrid Identities: Theoretical and Empirical Examinations (2008), Handbook of Emergent Methods (2008), Emergent Methods in Social Research (2006), and Approaches to Qualitative Research: A Reader on Theory and Practice (2004). She is also the editor of the Oxford University Press book series Understanding Qualitative Research, and series editor for the Sense Publishers book series Social Fictions.

Part I Fiction as Research Practice; Chapter 1 Blurred Genres: The Intertwining of Fiction and Nonfiction; Chapter 2 The Possibilities of Fiction-Based Research: Portraying Lives in Context; Chapter 3 Designing a Project: Fiction-Based Research Practice; Chapter 4 Evaluating Fiction-Based Research; Part II Exemplars with Commentary; Short Stories; Chapter 5 The Scrub Club, Elizabeth Bloom; Chapter 6 Visual Music, John L. Vitale; Novella; Chapter 7 The Wrong Shoe, Elizabeth de Freitas; Novels; Chapter 8 Waiting Room, Cheryl Dellasega; Chapter 9 Low-Fat Love, Patricia Leavy; Part III Conclusion; Chapter 10 Fiction as Pedagogy;