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Rhetorical Inquiry: Feminist Argumentative Modes and Expectations in Detective Fiction

Leone, Eden
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6230-1680
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1429225599

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2015, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bowling Green State University, English (Rhetoric and Writing) PhD.
This dissertation reports my study of knowledge making practices used by characters in two forms of popular detective entertainment media: The popular FOX television series Bones, featuring a team of forensic scientists and FBI agents who solve crimes together, and Agatha Christie’s popular detective novel 4:50 from Paddington, featuring the elderly Ms. Jane Marple, who works with her friends and the police to solve a murder. Using the three “ways of knowing” described in Belenky et al’s Women’s Ways of Knowing as heuristic analytical lenses, I perform content analyses on six episodes of the Bones series and the entire 4:50 from Paddington novel to determine how the main characters in each of these popular media create knowledge on their own and with others to solve crimes. I situate my content analysis findings within recent discussions of feminist theory and pedagogical practice to argue that the process of my study, its emphasis on popular media forms, and my findings can contribute to the broader disciplinary understanding of knowledge making within rhetoric and composition as a field of study.
Kristine Blair, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Catherine Cassara, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Lee Nickoson, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Sue Carter Wood, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
124 p.
Composition; Rhetoric
Rhetoric; Composition; Writing; Mystery Fiction; Detective Fiction; Writing Pedagogy; Feminism;

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  • Leone, E. (2015). Rhetorical Inquiry: Feminist Argumentative Modes and Expectations in Detective Fiction [Doctoral dissertation, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1429225599

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Leone, Eden. Rhetorical Inquiry: Feminist Argumentative Modes and Expectations in Detective Fiction. 2015. Bowling Green State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1429225599.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Leone, Eden. "Rhetorical Inquiry: Feminist Argumentative Modes and Expectations in Detective Fiction." Doctoral dissertation, Bowling Green State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1429225599

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