Quarks and Letters : Naturwissenschaften in der Literatur und Kultur der Gegenwart.
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 lite...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | German English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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Berlin/Boston :
De Gruyter,
2015.
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| Series: | Literatur- und Naturwissenschaften.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (376 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. |
| ISBN: | 9783110406542 3110406543 9783110406351 3110406357 311041760X 9783110417609 |