figurative language, science, and the rhetoric of the real /
Elizabeth Parthenia Shea
Albany :
State University of New York Press,
c2008
x, 136 p. :
ill. ;
24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-134) and index
Gene origin stories -- Prescribing rhetorical work : genetic theories, gemmules, and genes -- Genes on Main street -- Genes, figures, things, objects -- Figuratively speaking : genes, sexuality, and the authority of science -- Genome : the secret of how tropes work in the life sciences