figurative language, science, and the rhetoric of the real /
First Statement of Responsibility
Elizabeth Parthenia Shea
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Albany :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
State University of New York Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
c2008
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
x, 136 p. :
Other Physical Details
ill. ;
Dimensions
24 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-134) and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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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