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  1. Quarks and Letters :
    Naturwissenschaften in der Literatur und Kultur der Gegenwart.
    Published: 2015.
    Publisher:  De Gruyter,, Berlin/Boston :

    Issues and insights from the fields of brain research, quantum mechanics, and evolutionary theory have passed into novels, and physicists and biologists often use rhetorical metaphors to communicate and even evoke their discoveries. The essays in... more

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    Issues and insights from the fields of brain research, quantum mechanics, and evolutionary theory have passed into novels, and physicists and biologists often use rhetorical metaphors to communicate and even evoke their discoveries. The essays in this volume examine natural scientific themes in literary texts - such as the novels of Richard Powers, Can Hue, and Raoul Schrott - and the use of rhetoric and metaphor in the natural sciences.

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Mecke, Klaus.
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783110406542; 3110406543; 9783110406351; 3110406357; 311041760X; 9783110417609
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    Series: Literatur- und Naturwissenschaften ; ; v. 2
    Subjects: Literature and science.; Science in literature.; Fiction; LITERARY CRITICISM / General.; Fiction.; Literature and science.; Science in literature.
    Other subjects: Powers, Richard, (1957-); Schrott, Raoul; Canxue, (1953-); Canxue, (1953-); Powers, Richard, (1957-); Schrott, Raoul.
    Scope: 1 online resource (376 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

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