Kyle’s Reviews > Fiction as Research Practice: Short Stories, Novellas, and Novels > Status Update
Kyle
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It is exciting to see a well-articulated method that happens to be exactly what I had intended to write in my dissertation, even has the Arts-Based virtual reality angle to boot! Leavy first describes how this evolving genre of research emerged from ethnography, yet I want this method to do more: swerve towards science fiction rather than reiterate earnest inquiries into holocaust survivors or gender-identity issues.
— Feb 25, 2018 09:51PM
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Kyle
is on page 276 of 316
Leavy's own Low-Fat Love is a catchy narrative that serves a scholarly purpose, retelling the turmoil of young adults taking her sociology courses (perhaps also Leavy's initial frustration with the pigeoned-holed publishing world with regards to career-orientated women). Her following chapter on fiction's pedagogical potential is a bit tacked on, quoting at length other professors who use fiction in classes.
— May 10, 2018 10:20PM
Kyle
is on page 231 of 316
Shorter samples of fiction to draw upon, and yet still weighty in their topic and intrigue, the novella and opening chapters of the novel quickly establish the stories de Freitas and Dellasega wanted to tell, creating the virtual reality Leavy writes about. While I am curious to know more about the way research is presented, I also wonder if the audiences each author wanted to reach are in fact reading these stories.
— Apr 29, 2018 09:54PM
Kyle
is on page 193 of 316
Very enthusiastic to dive into my own fiction-based research after reading two short story examples, perhaps not for the right writerly reasons: my research doesn't have to be a fanfic version of my favourite authors' work! Both Bloom with her ungrammatical verbatim and Vitale with his not-so industry standard screenplay formatting demonstrated that I do not need technical precision but rather academic inventiveness.
— Apr 15, 2018 11:41PM
Kyle
is on page 91 of 316
Leavy's 2018 chapter from her self-edited Handbook of Arts-Based Research retroactively expands into book format - meaning she wrote the book and then condensed it into a later chapter - it seems to be affected by the same issue I have with Barone & Eisner's chapter (1997) expanded into a book (2012), both of which are cited frequently by Leavy: there is not enough "reality" to back up artistic "virtuality."
— Mar 04, 2018 10:28PM
