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How the gene got its groove : figurative language, science, and the rhetoric of the real / Elizabeth Parthenia Shea

Author
Shea, Elizabeth Parthenia, 1966-
Published
Albany : State University of New York Press, [2008]
Copyright Date
©2008
Physical Description
x, 136 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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Contents
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.
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ISBN
9780791474259 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0791474259 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-134) and index.
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