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Fiction as research practice : short stories, novellas, and novels /

By: Series: Developing qualitative inquiry ; 11.Publisher: Walnut Creek, California : Left Coast Press, Inc., ©2013Description: 316 pages ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781611321548
  • 9781611321531
  • 1611321530
  • 9781611321548
  • 1611321549
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PN73 .L43 2013
Contents:
Part I: Fiction as Research Practice -- 1. Blurred Genres: The Intertwining of Fiction and Nonfiction -- 2. The Possibilities of Fiction-Based Research: Portraying Lives in Context -- 3. Designing a Project: Fiction-Based Research Practice -- 4. Evaluating Fiction-Based Research -- Part II: Exemplars with Commentary -- Short Stories -- 5. The Scrub Club / Elizabeth Bloom -- 6. Visual Music / John L. Vitale -- Novella -- 7. The Wrong Shoe / Elizabeth de Freitas -- Novels -- 8. Waiting Room / Cheryl Dellasega -- 9. Low-Fat Love / Patricia Leavy -- Part III Conclusion -- 10. Fiction as Pedagogy
Summary: "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." -- Publisher's description
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-302) and index.

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

"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." -- Publisher's description

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