How the gene got its groove [ figurative language, science, and the rhetoric of the real
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Albany, New York :
State University of New York Press ,
c2008
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| Online Access: | NetLibrary |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Gene origin stories
- 2. Prescribing rhetorical work : genetic theories, gemmules, and genes
- 3. Genes on Main street
- 4. Genes, figures, things, objects
- 5. Figuratively speaking : genes, sexuality, and the authority of science
- 6. Genome : the secret of how tropes work in the life sciences