Literature as Qualitative Inquiry
The Novelist as Researcher
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2385356 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Brinkmann (0000-0001-7579-1212, University of Aalborg, Denmark,, corresponding author), Svend Brinkmann |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 1376-1394 |
| Publication date | 2009-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Qualitative Inquiry (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1077-8004 • E-ISSN: 1552-7565 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1077800409332030 |
| OpenAlex | W2093052262 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 25 |
| References cited | 15 |
In recent years, there has been a literary turn in parts of the social sciences. Attention has been given to social science writings as literature. In this article, the author approaches the issue from the opposite direction by engaging with literature as qualitative social inquiry. He does so through a reading of the French novelist Michel Houellebecq. Houellebecq's style represents a form of "lyrical sociology," depicting human experience in a consumer society. The author argues that we can learn as much from Houellebecq about contemporary human lives, experiences, and sufferings as we can from traditional forms of empirical qualitative research. He concludes with a more general proposal of how to think about fact and fiction in social science writings
Art · Epistemology · Human science · Linguistics · Literature · Qualitative research · Reading (process · Social science · Sociology · Style (visual arts · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Philosophy · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics · Social Representations and Identity
Emergence and Experience of “Peace of Mind”
The Dance and the Tune
Listening to the call of boredom at work
The semiotic multistability of time
The meaning and value of poetic thinking in qualitative sport research
Functional reality of the quasi-real
Revisiting “The Art of Being Fragile”
Culture & Psychology
The Issue of Schooling….or How to Tame a Horse
The shackles of gender still exist
More than just a product
Poverty, shame, and the class journey in public imagination
Taking story seriously
Patterns and scripts
The place for synthesis
Fictional IR and imagination
Non-fiction Literature and Interpretive/Qualitative Research Methods
Reading Hong Kong literarily across two generations
Silence
Health as Experience
Theorizing the Social Through Literary Fiction
Writing With Phineas
Using crystallization to understand loneliness in later life
Methods Braiding
Poststructural Analysis
Writing Culture
Interviewing at the Border of Fact and Fiction
Narratives in Social Science Research
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
Methodology of Social Sciences
Narrative Research
Changing psychologies in the transition from industrial society to consumer society
Against Narrative
Interpretive Ethnography
A Thrice-Told Tale
The reflexive interview and a performative social science
Fiction and Ethnography
| Unique citing works | 25 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,67 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2025 (15) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 25 |